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Old 02-04-2020, 10:53 AM   #402
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There are 2 somewhat related issues that are boiling me up in different ways.

The first is China's continual refusal to give Canada a clear pass to evacuate Canadians stuck in Hubei. As far as I know, Global Affairs Canada has arranged for a flight and stand ready to pick those guys up from Hubei, but officially, China is citing some BS excuse of how the Wuhan / Hubei airport and airspace are closed, so our Canadian chartered plane cannot go there to pick the Canadians up. Well... that closure certainly hasn't stopped US, UK, Germany, Japan, etc. from evacuating their citizens...

Of course I have zero proof over this, but I can't help but think that despite being in a time like this, China is still trying to play games with us over the Meng Wenzhou detention and snubbing us.

Another baffling issue is, when these said Canadians are ready to be flown out of Hubei, supposedly they'll be taken to CFB Trenton in Ontario for a 14 day quarantine. That is absolutely the right thing to do, but in the face of that sound policy, our Canadian ports of entry continue to only require self declaration of whether someone has recently been to Wuhan. Right now, the epidemic has already spread so far and wide beyond Wuhan & Hubei. And we continue to keep our borders wide open.


If we are gonna quarantine Canadians for 2 weeks when they return from Hubei, why aren't we doing the same to travellers who have been to China in the last 2 weeks?
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