First, it was too late in coming.
The supply-chain snafus occurred immediately after the lockdown in April, particularly food for restaurants, hotels, cafeterias and tourist destinations.
By the time it was announced, supply chains were already well on the way to adjusting to the new realities.
And then it took months before any purchasing was actually announced.
And it defies logic that one of the first announcements by federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau was at a Quebec egg-grading station.
Surely eggs are one of the easiest products to divert from one customer to another. Not so milk.
After eggs came a Bibeau announcement about fish at an indigenous community. Now there’s a high priority! Maybe it’s a priority for politics, but surely not for a national food surplus program.
And here we are in late September, and Bibeau has said it’s going to be “a couple of months” before the $50 million is spent.
Pathetic!
