Editor:
The Trudeau government’s new regulations respecting air travel into Canada defy rational behaviour.
To require additional testing after having been tested within the past 72 hours flies in the face of all logic. If the TV personalities posing as health experts have recommended this they should stick with television and writing books.
Being required to be quarantined in a hotel for three days at an outrageous cost is great for the hotel industry. That is all it can be good for! Is the traveller safer when taken to a hotel where he will be extorted $2,000 for the privilege of exposing himself to people (hotel staff and transportation) and staying in rooms of questionable cleanliness, and eating food prepared by strangers rather than have a family member meet them and take them directly to their place of isolation? What is the purpose of this insanity?
Shutting down the Canadian airlines is no loss. After being exposed to their refund policy after they cancelled flights, it will be a last resort before one can ever entrust them with payment for a future flight. Fortunately there are alternative carriers.
Cancelling flights to Mexico and the Caribbean is totally hypocritical. Canadian airlines will still be flying to New York, Seattle, California, India and other locations with high infection rates. They will still fly to the U.K. where a new, more contagious variant has been discovered.
One would love to understand the logic as to why our government must impose these rules on certain air travellers while people within Canada can travel by air with impunity to Whistler and other locations that have infection rates many times greater than points of departure of those arriving by air.
If these impositions are perceived to be a demonstration of the government’s responsible answer to protecting Canadians from the virus, they fail miserably.
Bruce Smith, Halfmoon Bay
