Negative test to enter Canada

We shall see. I don't think the airlines will give a shit.
They have no choice.
They will face fines and risk their landing privileges.

Anyone who does somehow get on board without the negative test will be forced to do the mandatory 14 days quarantine in a Federal facility.

I don`t think anybody in their right mind will want to have to pay for an extended stay, another flight, and then the test.
 
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is expected to sign an order on Tuesday expanding coronavirus testing requirements for nearly all international air travelers, not just from Britain, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters.
The new rules are to take effect two weeks from the day they are signed by CDC Director Mark Redfield, which would be Jan. 26.
The CDC has been urgently pressing for an expansion of the requirements with the Trump administration for weeks. One remaining issue is how to address some countries that have limited testing capacity and how the CDC would address travel to those countries, the sources said.
The CDC on Dec. 28 began requiring almost all airline passengers arriving from Britain - including U.S. citizens - to test negative for COVID-19 within 72 hours of departure. Those under 2 and passengers connecting through the UK are exempt.
Canada imposed similar rules for nearly all international arrivals starting Jan. 7, as have many other countries.
 
Considering the number of cases already in Canada and the US, testing for international travel (when testing doesn't always show positive early in exposure) is a drop in the hat.
 
We shall see. I don't think the airlines will give a shit.
Exemptions for Jamaica and Haiti - so there you go - less prosperous countries exempt because that would be racist per Turdeau - same as actually doing something last March to check air passengers - now look where we are today....
 
Those tests everybody is talking about? I'm not going to provide particulars, but, true story that happened recently in TO. There was an outbreak(that's what they call a single case these days) at a business I happen to know. Everyone had to get tested. A couple of people went, but decided to take off without taking the test when they were forced to wait too long. Two days later they got emails informing them that they tested positive. I've seen one of the emails. Maybe just a fuck up, maybe systemic.
 
We shall see. I don't think the airlines will give a shit.
Holiday travellers stuck at Dominican Republic resort due to difficulty getting COVID-19 tests
A Montreal couple and their two children who travelled to the Dominican Republic just before New Year’s now find themselves unable to get a COVID-19 test, which they need in order to board a plane back home.
“It wasn’t such a big deal when we booked,” said Moira Coutu, who booked her family’s annual holiday vacation in late November.
Despite warnings from the federal and provincial governments, Coutu and her husband, from Montreal, decided to take the trip anyway, knowing they would have to quarantine for two weeks upon their return.
But after they arrived at the Casa Marina Reef Resort near Puerto Plata, new rules came into effect for their return.
“I started having calls from people in Canada saying, ‘You’re going to need a test to come back.’ I said, ‘Okay, that’s okay.’ We decided to travel. That means there are certain conditions,” Coutu explained.
She paid $80 USD per test for the four of them, but did not receive the results. They were not allowed to board their returning flight on Monday.
She then paid for a second round of tests, but was warned the results would likely not arrive within the 72-hour delay required by the Canadian government.
In the meantime, she and her family are staying at the hotel, paying out of pocket. She said she doesn’t know when they’ll be able to return to Montreal.
“Don’t let people travel. If they don’t want people to travel, then just don’t let them travel from the beginning,” she said.
Air Transat declined an on-camera interview with Global News, but a spokesperson for the company confirmed that since Jan. 7, the tour operator has had to bar 269 passengers from boarding flights because they did not have negative COVID-19 tests.
 
Holiday travellers stuck at Dominican Republic resort due to difficulty getting COVID-19 tests
A Montreal couple and their two children who travelled to the Dominican Republic just before New Year’s now find themselves unable to get a COVID-19 test, which they need in order to board a plane back home.
“It wasn’t such a big deal when we booked,” said Moira Coutu, who booked her family’s annual holiday vacation in late November.
Despite warnings from the federal and provincial governments, Coutu and her husband, from Montreal, decided to take the trip anyway, knowing they would have to quarantine for two weeks upon their return.
But after they arrived at the Casa Marina Reef Resort near Puerto Plata, new rules came into effect for their return.
“I started having calls from people in Canada saying, ‘You’re going to need a test to come back.’ I said, ‘Okay, that’s okay.’ We decided to travel. That means there are certain conditions,” Coutu explained.
She paid $80 USD per test for the four of them, but did not receive the results. They were not allowed to board their returning flight on Monday.
She then paid for a second round of tests, but was warned the results would likely not arrive within the 72-hour delay required by the Canadian government.
In the meantime, she and her family are staying at the hotel, paying out of pocket. She said she doesn’t know when they’ll be able to return to Montreal.
“Don’t let people travel. If they don’t want people to travel, then just don’t let them travel from the beginning,” she said.
Air Transat declined an on-camera interview with Global News, but a spokesperson for the company confirmed that since Jan. 7, the tour operator has had to bar 269 passengers from boarding flights because they did not have negative COVID-19 tests.
No sympathy for stranded passengers - they are on their own
 
Every single passenger on board 2 international flights to Canada informed that they were potentially exposed to COVID-19
Two Air Transat flights had so many people on board infected with COVID-19 that all the passengers are now deemed to be at risk of catching the virus.
Flights TS663 AND TS665 - both taking passengers from Haiti to Montreal - were identified by Health Canada as flights with several confirmed coronavirus cases.
Now, passengers seated in "all rows" have been notified that they have potentially been exposed to the virus.
The Canadian government announced on January 7 that a negative coronavirus test is required to fly.
Haiti, where these passengers were traveling from, is one of the two territories exempt from this rule.
 
Every single passenger on board 2 international flights to Canada informed that they were potentially exposed to COVID-19
Two Air Transat flights had so many people on board infected with COVID-19 that all the passengers are now deemed to be at risk of catching the virus.
Flights TS663 AND TS665 - both taking passengers from Haiti to Montreal - were identified by Health Canada as flights with several confirmed coronavirus cases.
Now, passengers seated in "all rows" have been notified that they have potentially been exposed to the virus.
The Canadian government announced on January 7 that a negative coronavirus test is required to fly.
Haiti, where these passengers were traveling from, is one of the two territories exempt from this rule.
They should all be in forced quarantine, no self-isolation - this is what happens when Trudeau manages risk and political correctness. No reason for travel to and from countries that cannot test people - and wth are people flying it is stupid to think airplanes are a good idea now. Good job Trudeau
 
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There have been so many exposures on flights the Government has a website dedicated to it

341 confirmed flights in past 14 days
The prescreen covid test is nonsense and (again) stats prove it

(But again it really was pointless and a placebo since day 1; I get a covid test on Jan 17 then go to airport, getting exposed on route, and fly into Canada on the 18th)

Multiple countries contribute to outbreaks, not just the exempt ones
 
But the goverment allows tons of travel in and out & they themselves travel.

when rule makers break their own rules,anyone whose smart will pay attention and not listen to their rules.
What is truly astounding to me is that Quebec has the biggest Covid issue and full curfews, even walking outside after 8pm without a dog is a crime.

Yet it is somehow okay to allow planeload after planeload of totally unnecessary travel from a sorry to say it, a poor shithole country, that has no testing ability and naively expects people to self-isolate. Two full planeloads from Haiti. Now I somehow think that if anthrax was on the planes they would still allow them with open arms because in Turdeaus feeble mind it would be somehow racist to deny entry. How does that benefit Canada?

At what point does the government choose what is necessary to protect the country and what is virtue signaling. This is exactly the thinking that allowed the virus to decimate the economy and kill 1000s. No wonder people are frustrated and tired of the rules and restrictions. Then going on sunny vacations to boot. The logic is non-existent.
 
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There have been so many exposures on flights the Government has a website dedicated to it

341 confirmed flights in past 14 days
The prescreen covid test is nonsense and (again) stats prove it

(But again it really was pointless and a placebo since day 1; I get a covid test on Jan 17 then go to airport, getting exposed on route, and fly into Canada on the 18th)

Multiple countries contribute to outbreaks, not just the exempt ones
Holy shit - that's incredible! Unbelievable. How does the government feel this is slowing the spread of Covid? Why not ban all non-essential travel. Period.
 
Quebec premier asks Trudeau to ban all non-essential travel from Canada
Quebec Premier François Legault is asking the Trudeau government to ban all international travel departing from Canada that is not essential, such as people flying to all-inclusive resorts.
He said he has already made the request privately and now Quebec is "waiting" for the federal government to make a decision.
"We are realizing there are some people who are coming back from international travel with the virus," Legault said in a press conference Tuesday.
"I don't want us to experience what we experienced after spring break in March. And I still don't understand [how] a person decides to go to Punta Cana or to Cancun, in an all-inclusive hotel, given the situation that we're experiencing here in Quebec."
Legault also called on the federal government to enforce people's post-travel quarantine requirement more strictly, and said Quebec is ready to take extra measures on its own if Ottawa doesn't take action.

Prime Minister Trudeau sounded a similar note on Tuesday, however, warning travellers that new restrictions could arrive with little notice.
During a French segment of his press conference, the prime minister urged people who have booked trips to cancel them, saying the risk of bringing home the virus is not worth it.
 
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Quebec premier asks Trudeau to ban all non-essential travel from Canada
Prime Minister Trudeau sounded a similar note on Tuesday, however, warning travellers that new restrictions could arrive with little notice.
During a French segment of his press conference, the prime minister urged people who have booked trips to cancel them, saying the risk of bringing home the virus is not worth it.
Typical Trudeau, feeble and afraid of offending his voter base while screwing Quebeckers who are forced to stay indoors unless essential. He can go pound sand!
196 international flights with Covid in 2 weeks - how many 100s or 1000s more patients will that result in the next two weeks? No screening from Haiti or DR...smh...
Either shit or get off the pot Turdeau. Make up your pathetic mind, your Minister of Health with the Anthropology degree is completely useless in her position. Remember your former MoH - Jane Philpott - the one you canned because she supported JWR who you also fired - yes an actual MD - actually qualified - now dean at Queens Health Sciences...pathetic leadership..wtf are Canadians thinking re-electing this useless clown.
"Oh. ugh, er, please reconsider going, I even gave up my trip to see my dear friend the Aga Khan this winter - we are all in this together...let me do another presser."
 
There have been so many exposures on flights the Government has a website dedicated to it

341 confirmed flights in past 14 days
The prescreen covid test is nonsense and (again) stats prove it

(But again it really was pointless and a placebo since day 1; I get a covid test on Jan 17 then go to airport, getting exposed on route, and fly into Canada on the 18th)

Multiple countries contribute to outbreaks, not just the exempt ones


YES, let us listen to your words of wisdom and get stranded overseas.


Do it TJ, take a nice long vacay. We don't need you here and you deserve a nice looooong holiday.
 
Australia has some of the strictest border measures in the world.
Since the pandemic began, the country has been completely closed for all tourism in and out of the country.
Australians returning home from abroad face a mandatory state supervised 14 day hotel quarantine.
In order for Australians to leave the country, they must have an essential reason for doing so and be approved by the Australian government.
 
I know a person that just travelled to Canada. Negative test required to board, and strong pressure to take voluntary test at Pearson.

By the way, anyone that doesn’t think these cosmetic measures are not a direct response to so many politicians and hospital executives getting busted vacationing over Xmas is Uber naive.
 
Typical Trudeau, feeble and afraid of offending his voter base while screwing Quebeckers who are forced to stay indoors unless essential. He can go pound sand!
196 international flights with Covid in 2 weeks - how many 100s or 1000s more patients will that result in the next two weeks? No screening from Haiti or DR...smh...
Either shit or get off the pot Turdeau. Make up your pathetic mind, your Minister of Health with the Anthropology degree is completely useless in her position. Remember your former MoH - Jane Philpott - the one you canned because she supported JWR who you also fired - yes an actual MD - actually qualified - now dean at Queens Health Sciences...pathetic leadership..wtf are Canadians thinking re-electing this useless clown.
"Oh. ugh, er, please reconsider going, I even gave up my trip to see my dear friend the Aga Khan this winter - we are all in this together...let me do another presser."
Amazing how the political stripe that says covid isn't harmful and lockdowns are illegal is also the source of complaints that we should seal our borders to prevent covid from getting in.

I guess they see minorities are a scarier threat than a pandemic that's killed a couple million.