Factual accuracy is a first rate legal defence to claims of defamation. China and South Asia have become major sources of methamphetamine, and now fentanyl and opioids, as Big Pharma shuts down north american plants and moves production to cheap wage countries.

Forget the "opiod crisis". How much priority with China and India give Canada and the USA during the next global pandemic?

Bloated profits were supposed to be part of a Quid Pro Quo that provided a domestic production overcapacity during normal times, to meet pandemic needs on short notice, and to maintain the knowledge and skill base needed to do that.

They were also supposed to be used to pay for research for new antibiotics and so on, but what research they still do in North America is focused on finding the next Viagra or Cialis.