Canadians eager to travel following the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions are facing long waits to get a passport, with hundreds camped out for days in Montreal, where police were called to tame the angry crowd.
Similar scenes have played out across the country, while delays at airport security checkpoints for flights have compounded public outrage.
“It’s just a disaster, you can’t call it anything else,” said Cheikh Diop, 34, who waited almost 24 hours in the Montreal line to get his daughter’s passport.
“We waste time, we have no life. People need to travel,” he said, adding that the surge in demand should