Trudeau gov is building a new facility in Montreal (surprise!) which was supposed to be ready in Nov, but now the gov says it's going to be ready in July.
more CPC/O'Fool misinformation - well done Gorgeous!the 'new' facility was always estimated to complete by end of July, 2021. Upgrades to the existing facility were estimated to complete by 'late 2020, early 2021'. Your stated, "Montreal (surprise)" is only a "surprise" to purveyors of misinformation... like you Gorgeous! Ya see, upgrades intended as a so-called temporary stopgap, were to the existing National Research Council (NRC) facility in Montreal. The new facility is a replacement to the existing NRC facility... in Montreal!
with this recent posting emphasis on domestic capabilities: in a series of posts the waldo previously highlighted {Liberal} government funding & initiatives... with an emphasis on domestic manufacturing capability; specifically:
... in regards Canadian capabilities to produce vaccines... directly or under license:
as the world's first Phase 2 clinical trial, Canada's National Research Council (NRC) partnered with China's CanSino Biologics in developing the Ad5-nCoV vaccine leveraging NRC's proprietary 'HEC293 Cell Line'... which also included collaboration with the Canadian Immunization Research Network at the Canadian Center for Vaccinology. More pointedly, that collaboration allowed the NRC to advance a scale-up production process for the vaccine candidate; one relying upon Government of Canada funding to support upgrades to the NRC’s facilities in Montreal to enable compliance standards to ensure readiness for Canadian bioprocessing of potential vaccine candidates as they become available.
as I mentioned in an earlier Aug 17 post, this latest announcement is over and above the financial support the Government of Canada initially provided for upgrades to the existing NRC Royalmount Avenue biomanufacturing facility in Montréal; specifically, upgrades to complete in late 2020/early 2021. As for today's latest announcement concerning a new NRC facility... with a completion timeline must sooner than your stated 'will take two years (hopefully)' period; specifically:
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now, as can happen... construction shyte can happen. As it turns out, the upgrade to the smaller existing NRC facility, intended as a temporary stopgap measure with an estimated capability to produce 250,000 doses a month, proved to be a more difficult undertaking than originally estimated. Accordingly a decision was made to stop the upgrade to the existing smaller structure and concentrate entirely on the new significantly larger replacement facility - one with an estimated capability to produce millions of doses per month.