First, a declaration of experience. I worked for several years as a negotiator for the Canadian Red Cross in after federal and provincial decided to shift responsibility for blood donations to new agencies.
That experience led me to work with many wonderful people whose lives were turned upside down by having received tainted blood. The Red Cross had to learn many difficult, painful lessons from mistakes made.
Canada is now at risk of throwing these lessons out the window. Private clinics, which would pay people for blood donations which would then be used to make plasma for sale around the world, have applied for licences from both the federal government and the government of Ontario.