Trudeau gave $237-million contract benefiting Liberal buddy’s company The $237 million was given to FTI Professional Grade, a company that was only established seven days before. It’s website said the company had two employees. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is demanding answers after it was revealed the Justin Trudeau government gave a $237-million no-competition contract to a firm that had been created just seven days before and overpaid by nearly $100 million. The details were revealed Thursday in the Journal de Montréal. The report showed during the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the $237 million was given to FTI Professional Grade, a company that was only established seven days before. It’s website said the company had two employees. The contract was for the manufacturing of 10,000 ventilators. After getting the money, FTI hired the firm Baylis to handle the manufacturing of the ventilators, said the paper. Baylis belongs to Michael Baylis, an ex-liberal MP and an active member of the party since the 1980s. He is also a close friend of Trudeau. According to the Journal de Montréal, the Trudeau government overpaid by nearly $100 million. “The company Medtronic is one of the main ventilator manufacturers. Medtronic sells its unit for approximately $10,000 US, or $13,700 CAD. The ventilators manufactured by Baylis were based on the Medtronic model, but Baylis charged the Canadian government $23,700 per unit,” said the paper’s report. “This definitely needs to be looked into by a parliamentary committee. It’s possible that there are special circumstances given the urgency, but there’s no reason now, after the fact, not to go back and examine what those might be. If there is any evidence of inappropriate favouritism, it needs to be answered for. This is taxpayer money and it needs to be used prudently, not used to line the pockets of politically-connected individuals,” Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation told Westphalian Times. https://www.westernstandardonline.com/2020/10/trudeau-gave-237-million-contract-benefiting-liberal-buddys-company/ https://archive.vn/M4VXK