A family has been fined and attracted the anger of Port Coquitlam’s mayor after getting caught re-selling medical face masks at McClean Park on Friday.
Pictures sent to Global News show large brown boxes, filled with smaller boxes of supplies. A cash box could also be seen on a folding table set up next to the large boxes.
Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West said a make-shift sign showed the family was selling the masks at $20 each, which he called unacceptable. “I can’t actually say what I think of what these people have done.
You would need to bleep it out. To have people try and sell supplies that are short-stocked in our hospitals and try to make a buck is beyond anything I can comprehend.” The family was fined for operating an unauthorized