After tiring of Federal inaction, BC is now requiring anyone arriving from a foreign country to have an isolation plan and if they don't, the province is quarantining them on its own and doing followups on those who are supposed to be self isolating.
And the Feds followed suit shortly after... same restrictions.
My only concern is that Canada acted later than it should have due to humming and hawing over the political consequences of restricting people’s behaviour/movements, or what it thought Chinese-Canadians might think. Once this pandemic is done, hopefully the opposition parties get some answers. i don’t hold much hope that the NDP would be less PC though.
Dix was expressing his frustration over this for some time before the province finally gave up and did it on its own.
I can only wonder if the feds did it because they didn't want to be shown up by their BC counterparts.
You do have to wonder if they would have otherwise done it.
It makes me really effing PO'd at the thought of a leader who would rather risk people's lives than offend people. Our PM has a psychological disease and I hope after this it makes him well cured of it. I'm fed up of it.
member wilber and pile-on-posse:
March 25 - under the Federal Quarantine Act, all travelers returning to Canada — with the exception of "essential workers (eg. truckers, health care workers)", will have to enter a mandatory 14 days of isolation under the Quarantine Act whether or not they have symptoms of coronavirus. As the waldo understands, if a designated Quarantine Officer believes that a traveler has refused to isolate themselves, they can ask a peace officer to arrest the traveler and bring them into quarantine.
now certainly, it is the prerogative of any province to enact mandatory isolation requirements under their own 'emergency measures act'... like B.C. did on
April 10th. But yes, as the waldo understands, on
April 14th, the federal government did update it's March 25th order to provide additional flexibility considerations: to give border agents the ability to assign a self-isolation order (rather than a mandatory quarantine) if a traveler can present an acceptable self-isolation plan.
as the waldo understands, following the dynamics at play, these self-isolation plan requirements are being considered in relation to an expected increase in "snowbird returnees"... those who chose to ignore the early March 'suggestion' from the federal government that they return home (which required self-isolation for 14 days); chose to instead ride out their stay to align with the allowed maximum ~6-month away period... those choosing sunnier climes over returning to self-isolation.
member wilber and pile-on posse: details matter... but yes, they do take some degree of effort to properly understand/present.