Ontario asked Health Canada to stop issuing the licenses for the private blood broker clinics, Canadian Plasma Resources, when they randomly showed up beside a homeless shelter in Toronto.
Bowing to public pressure, Health Canada allowed for a “Round Table” discussion in April 2013. This meeting was an invite only meeting with 16 people in attendance.
Health Canada had the “Big Pharma” of the plasma industry, PPTA, at the table with them to justify their policy decision. We know – our BloodWatch.org cofounder was there!
That means that our public blood policy was guided by private industry.
The private clinics then moved to Saskatchewan after being banned in Ontario.
There was no public consultation by Health Canada or by the Saskatchewan Government even though the opposition in Canada was and still is almost total.
The private plasma clinics simply “appeared” around the corner from pawnshops and payday loan stores in Saskatoon.