Team Canada shows co-operation pays after 3M mask supply threatened

While Canadian officials were working behind the scenes to ensure Canada's supply of 3M masks, some of Canada’s premiers stepped up to the cameras to launch the moral-suasion offensive.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, left, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Dwight Ball, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The efforts of the premiers, the prime minister’s managed public utterances, and backroom diplomacy must have helped in resolving the log jam around 3M's masks, writes Tim Powers. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

April 8, 2020

OTTAWA—As Canada’s COVID-19 containment enters its fourth week, with many weeks still likely to go, a bouquet to some of our political leaders for how they handled U.S. President Donald Trump’s initial efforts to limit 3M from providing N95 respirator masks to Canada.

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