Canada\u0027s chief medical officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, indicated early Friday that Ottawa is well aware of the drawbacks and \u0027we are looking at that quite carefully\u0027
Travelling to Philadelphia to visit daughter Kaity, her American son-in-law Jesse and three-year-old granddaughter Ilsa — a routine endeavour in the before times, costing just $80 for a tank of diesel fuel — has been an expensive and frustrating ordeal since the restrictions were imposed.
All told, Patchett figures they’ve spent $6,000 on trips that would normally only have set them back $320. That cottage, which is suspended in a state of partial renovation, has been sitting largely untended and exposed to the elements — and Deslippe is terrified of what she might find when she finally heads back on Day 1.
The cause has evolved quickly. At first, it targeted both Washington and the federal government in Ottawa, then set its sights mainly on the White House and members of Congress when Canada began allowing fully vaccinated visitors again in August.Article content Not only is the expense discouraging people from travelling, it’s a self-defeating measure that does little to improve public safety, said Perrin Beatty, a former federal cabinet minister who now serves as CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.He pointed to the federal government’s own rule that says if a trip to the U.S. will be less than 72 hours long, travellers can get their test done in Canada before they leave and use the same results when returning to the country.
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