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It is easy to imagine the main reason why the liberal leadership does not want to step down is that they do not want to be seen agreeing with these protohuman conservatives.
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June 11, 2022 • 5 hours ago • 4 minutes reading • 140 comments Travelers are waiting in line at Terminal 1 at Toronto Pearson Airport. Photo by Peter J. Thompson / National Post
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Ask a Canadian policy observer what the question period is about – as many a beginner might be, confused by monkey behavior and a complete lack of answers – and you’ll hear that it’s really just a way to make politicians angry and passionate about the day, for the evening news programs.
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Some days that retain water. Some days, not so much. Thursday, for example.
“Mr Speaker, the EU and the United States have dropped their mandates (vaccine), while Canadian travelers still have to provide proof of vaccination, wear masks and be tested at random,” said Calgary Conservative MP Stephanie. Kuza in the House of Commons said: “Canadians want to travel again, but the backlog created by these already unnecessary restrictions has become so great that Air Canada had to cancel 360 flights a week at Pearson Airport in Toronto.
“When,” Kusi asked, “will the government finally focus on economic recovery and remove these outdated, punitive travel mandates?”
As for the questions from the question period, it was relatively substantive, unobtrusive and well-crafted. There is no denying the chaos that affects Pearson Airport in Toronto today, and while this is not unique in the world – the situation in the UK seems to be much worse and crippling more airports – the extra business that Canadian border guards need to cope nowadays, is.
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The endless queues and canceled flights to Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and other British airports are blamed almost entirely on staff shortages. Here, the entire airline and airport industry, as well as Canada’s border services, agree that travel mandates in Canada are slowing down: what used to take 30 to 60 seconds now takes two to three minutes. These delays accumulate and they pass through the system.
I would be lying if I said that I understood why these rules should be wasted so much time. The ArriveCAN app instantly signals whether or not your proof of vaccination has been accepted. If border guards spend valuable minutes informing foreign tourists about local public health rules, such as what to do if the test is positive, it must be of dubious use: I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and I don’t even know what the rules say. of my various governments today. Whatever they say, they obviously do not apply.
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Liberals stop random COVID tests at airports as frustration with travel rules increases
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As for this random arrival test, which Chief Public Health Officer Dr Teresa Tam defended on Friday as a way to discover new options, there is no reason to delay even for a second anyone who is not elected to him.
But in any case, the problem exists. The federal government recognizes it. (Only three percent of all passengers at Pearson and Vancouver International Airports are now waiting in line for more than 30 minutes, Transport Canada said in a press release this week, which may be true, but it’s a transparent statistical misconception: Why combine Vancouver? who escaped this problem relatively unscathed, with Pearson being Chaos Central, except to downplay the chaos?)
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Surely we all already understand that we will not stop COVID at the border. And the use of mandates as a boost to vaccinate people, which I think was justified, is certainly over: the daily delivery of a second dose across the country averaged just under 500,000 in June last year. As of Thursday, the number is only 1,100.
“Criminal”, the word used by Kuzi, seems very appropriate – not only for passengers, but also for the struggling industry. Maybe I would have booked a flight to London this summer if it weren’t for the terrible stories in the British press that people were told not to arrive more than three hours before their flight, just to find five-hour queues on arrival. No thanks. Others may think the same of Toronto and Canada in general.
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Adam van Coverden, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, stood up to answer Kusi’s questions. Or rather not.
“Mr Speaker, let me start first by thanking our healthcare professionals who have sacrificed so much over the last few years,” he began. he added later, and at no point before he grinned, straightened his bow tie, and took his place with a distinct look of triumph, did he come close to answering the question.
A clip that for the evening news and non-partisan Canadians with wandering will probably see a government that simply ignores their fears. In fact, there are reports that a huge number of Liberal MPs are getting tired of this situation and would prefer Ottawa to withdraw from these restrictions, as do most of our colleagues. This government is so frivolous that it is easy to imagine that the main reason the party leadership does not want to back down is that they do not want to be seen in agreement with these proto-human conservatives.
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Fortunately, as a backup option, they can turn fifth just before the summer weekend. On Friday afternoon, news emerged that federal services would temporarily “suspend” random tests on arrival – which Tam soberly defended as essential this morning – until it could be resumed off-site. This is a direct admission that their critics are right: liberal politicians are clogging Canada’s largest airport for a trivial reason.
Such is the glorious life of a liberal: you can make as much of a scene as you want, defending the defenseless until the very moment you change your mind, and you should never be held accountable. Why people would vote for a party with such bloody horrific treatment of Canadian hoi polloi is a question that scientists and public health officials still can’t answer.
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