Recently, the country's authorities announced that all residents returning to Canada must immediately take a covid test and, within three days of waiting for the result, live in a hotel room at a price of $ 2,000 to $ 3,000 for three days. (And this is despite the fact that a rule was already introduced earlier that before departure to Canada one must pass the test and fly only with a negative result). Hotels for single expensive confinement are selected by the government. In any hotel – it is impossible.
“THIS IS AN UNLAWFUL ARREST!”
The innovation has amazed both ordinary Canadians and the media and human rights activists. Officials at the Legal Center for Constitutional Freedoms, a local human rights and charitable organization, called the government's actions illegal arrest of people, illegal solitary confinement of citizens and a violation of their basic constitutional rights.
In a letter sent to the Minister of Transport, human rights activists write that people who have a negative covid test are being taken to “secret places”. Their relatives are not told where the newcomer was taken. The arrivals themselves are not allowed, according to them, to contact a lawyer. “This policy coincides with the actions of the most repressive and undemocratic regimes and is completely unacceptable,” the letter says. The Legal Center has announced that it is preparing a lawsuit against the Justin Trudeau government in this regard.
GUARDING IN THE CORRIDOR
The media are also noticeably surprised by the development of events in Canada, where endless quarantine continues and the budget deficit amounted to $ 381 billion by November last year.
The Toronto Sun spoke on the phone with a Canadian who, with a negative covid test, was taken away from the airport and placed in a Radisson hotel room. He said that no one was allowed to see him, he was not allowed out himself – there was a guard in the corridor. He saw that the same was done to eight other passengers on his flight from the United States. And despite the fact that there are several restaurants under the windows of the hotel, he is not allowed to order food in them by phone either. Sandwiches and bottles of water are brought to his room. At the same time, he must pay $ 2000- $ 3000 for such a “luxury” pastime. “I won't pay anything, I haven't signed any documents with them,” the prisoner is indignant.
WITH TREATMENT – IN CONCLUSION
Newspapers talk about the Canadian bullfinches. This is the name for Canadians who, due to the country's cold climate, leave for Florida, California, Mexico for the winter. There are many of them. They either have their own housing there, or rent. Now they don't know how to get back. Because if it is a family of four, for example, a person, then for three days in the government of a certain hotel, they must pay $ 8000- $ 12000. In the absence of any symptoms of covid! With a negative test on your hands!
Even worse for those who travel to the United States for treatment, the National Post says. There are also many of them. In Canada, there are too long queues for examinations and treatment, so many cancer patients go to the States. And now, without declaring, as they say, war, the government has prepared a surprise for them upon their return.
The authorities, however, said that the draconian measures concern travelers who left Canada for a disrespectful, not vital reason, but which reason for the authorities is valid and which is not, no one knows. The Transport Minister said the list of exceptions to the rule would be very narrow.
