Can anyone explain this?
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Yeah, how were they asking for tear gas for the purpose of covid-19 response back in 2016?
The federal gov't purchasing tear gas isn't suspicious in itself. The military goes through a ton of that shit every year. It's the description where it's mentioned that the tear gas is for covid-19 response that's suspicious. It reads like a shitpost but I can't think of how a shitposter could have gotten that into the Canada.ca buy/sell database.
If you follow the link to the actual item page there's no description there, just some listing data. So it looks like the descurion was removed, but is still lingering in the search system.
Best guess: Shitposted by someone who had access to the database, and was then corrected?
Edit: Wait, that doesn't make sense because the item page says "Date modified:2016-03-02".
Where the fuck did the search function find that paragraph referencing covid-19?
My guess is the phrase "Are you a business that can supply products and services in support of Canada’s response to COVID-19? Canada wants to hear from you." is inserted in the search index.
A lot of government purchasing websites are really, really shitty, speaking as a person who sells things to the government fairly often.
Do you see the yellow banner on top?
This is a header which is the same on any page on buyandsell.gc.ca. A few months ago this header looked like this:
https://i.imgur.com/wIEDeGc.png
Even on older pages (like the one with the tear gas grenades) this header will appear. Now they changed the header to something new and when the search engine will index the websites again, the Covid-19 mention on this specific page you linked will vanish.