Fri Mar 31, 2023 – 4:38 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government is refusing to disclose how much money they lost on a failed $200 million plan to build a COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing facility in Quebec.
“The financial details and information pertaining to the relationship between Canada and the supplier are considered confidential,” Trudeau’s cabinet asserted in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled in the House of Commons last week.
“Total authorized support for this project was $200 million against which $101 million was disbursed in 2021 and $59 million was disbursed in 2022,” explained the Inquiry.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, as of February, the Trudeau government calculated its total spending to medical manufacturer Medicago, which was planning to open and operate a vaccine production plant in Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos’ Québec City riding, at $173 million.
That same month, it was reported that the Medicago plant was closing due to “significant changes” in the vaccine market before ever producing a single dose.
Medicago CEO Toshifumi Toda testified to the House of Commons on March 23 that the company is “working to wind up operations” and that some “of our tangible assets including facilities
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