The government lags behind the private sector
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Summary
The coronavirus crisis of late February was one of the worst in recent memory, but there is one thing we can all agree on, and that is that the private sector is the real hero. They were the ones who stepped up to the plate and stepped forward with the solutions to the crisis.
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I think we're going to hear a lot in the coming weeks months and even years when we look back on
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the coronavirus crisis that it's government that is what saved us that's what saved society
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individuals and businesses but hold on a second is that really true yes it's the case that
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government has introduced various different measures to shore up yes the health care system
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individuals and businesses that were flailing because of the lockdown and most people agree
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regardless of political philosophy that some element of that was necessary but let's pause
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for a second and take a look at what the private sector what business what manufacturing has done
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in the past few weeks in the past couple months and we will see that they are the real heroes
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I've actually been on the c seed and bcc of a whole bunch of emails between different manufacturers
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manufacturer organizations and their contacts in government the people in government who are
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tasked with ramping up ventilator production or at least trying to ensure that it is ramped up
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getting different mask equipment and so forth and it's been really interesting to read these email
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trails and see how the people on the front lines in manufacturing are actually the ones who know how
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this works and they're the ones telling government here's what you got to do and the ones pushing
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government to move faster and more efficiently and I gotta say it's really impressive they are the ones
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who are actually chomping on the heels of government saying let's do this let's do that let's move
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faster trying to mobilize society to deal with all of these problems quite frankly I think government
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in all of this has always been two or three weeks behind so back when it was obvious we should
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have done travel restrictions the feds were saying no the science shows that somehow doesn't work and
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it's racist and so forth and of course a few weeks later those of us who were calling for it were
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vindicated they did it same with the masks now we're in this position where it's time for a phase
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one reopening of society mostly all across Canada maybe the hardest hit areas not yet but most provinces
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we've got to reopen and it's the government that's being the most cautious about this and it's businesses
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that are already implementing all of these different plans and initiatives to allow for the safe
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reopening of society with different social distancing in the workplace and so forth so at the end of all
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of this we're going to have that conversation about what happened what worked what didn't and there's
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going to be a lot of people out there who already believe that the state needs to play a greater role in
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our lives who tell us it was because government did all of this not so fast though I think we need
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to acknowledge all of the initiatives that private businesses manufacturing individuals entrepreneurs
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they all stepped up and they were the ones actually behind the scenes offering the innovative ideas
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they were the ones always ahead of the curve throughout all of this our hats off to them a lot of great
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Canadian businesses manufacturers we got to do everything we can in the months and years ahead
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to make sure that they remain strong and that we create good jobs good opportunities in Canada
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lots of made in Canada products that are made here that we buy here do not forget about them