An Ontario government source says 500,000 — not three million — medical masks held up at the U.S. border on Sunday amid the coronavirus pandemic have been released.
The clarification comes after Ontario Premier Doug Ford gave media interviews saying that three million of the vital personal protective equipment had been blocked from entering the province at the U.S.
border. That came on the heels of a statement last week by medical supply firm 3M that the Trump administration was trying to get the company to stop exporting N95 respirators to Canada and Latin America even as the coronavirus pandemic worsens.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had earlier on Monday declined to confirm that the shipment was blocked, saying only that Canadian