Evidently either do the bureaucrats at Health Canada.
I reached out to them Monday to ask about a possible extension and was informed repeatedly over four days that they were overwhelmed with media requests and couldn’t get to mine.
Finally, I received a non-answer on Friday from a spokesman, Anna Madison.
She indicated that the federal order in council that forces travellers arriving at four Canadian airports from international destinations to quarantine in a government-mandated hotel for three days
is in
“It may be amended or renewed as required to protect Canadians,” Madison said.
There was no further indication when that might happen or for how long.
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A Toronto man says he’s heard nothing from the hotel where he alleges his father caught a COVID variant in early March and promptly gave it to five other adults living in the same household.
Syed Haider told me Tuesday although everyone has recovered “finally” he doesn’t feel Toronto’s Sheraton Hotel and Conference Centre should “get away with it” and the least they could do is return the $1,546 paid for his 74-year-old dad’s three-night stay.
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A Toronto family is speaking out about what they call the "utter uselessness" of Canada's hotel quarantine program where their 74-year-old father believes he contracted a coronavirus variant of concern and then spread it to the rest of the.
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