Yes, the Sask Party Is Lying To You About Hand Sanitizer

There was nothing wrong with it, beyond its impact on Scott Moe's incredibly fragile ego.

In 1921, with World War One and the Spanish flu pandemic in the rearview mirror, Charles and Earnest Paradis opened a fine china shop at 92 1/2 Rideau Street in Ottawa.

While its original location was eventually appropriated to build the Rideau Centre, the Paradis brothers grew their business into a successful Ottawa-based kitchen supply company called Chef’s Paradis. The Paradis family sold the company in 2017, just a few years shy of its 100th anniversary.

Believe it or not, that is the origin story behind just one of the 559 pallets of expired hand sanitizer in the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s warehouse in Regina.

It provides clues, moving into the third year of a global pandemic, as to why 559 pallets of various volumes, quantities and brands of hand sanitizer, of all things, sit expired today in a Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) warehouse awaiting costly, taxpayer-funded disposal.

Let me explain. Or try, anyway.