fussyjr - In the Sept presentation it was strongly suggested a deal would be done by years end. Please take a look at the reality of the world today. When that presentation was made there was an average of about 406 COVID cases a day in Canada. By mid Dec that number was about 6000 a day. Today that number has double from mid Dec. yesterday in the US there were about 306,000 new cases and over 4000 deaths. There are now a number of hospitals using reefer units as temporary morgues. World wide the number of new cases exploded between Sept and mid Nov and since then there have been 2 new strains that seem to spread much more easily. Vaccinations are happening much slower than most countries had planned for aside from Israel because they agreed to pay PFE a 40% premium for their vaccine.

Tada, you are kidding us, right? Don had no clue of what was coming during the fall and winter re the anticipated upsurge? He needs to stop making statements like that if he knows there's absolutely no truth behind them!

IMO there is no excuse, unless he has given them a higher number because of the new potential and they are still mulling it over, or we're really close to getting that deal done and he only missed it by a few weeks because of a lack of urgency from the other party.