This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.More than a million people headed home to Canada last week as other nations gradually closed their borders over concerns about the spreading coronavirus.
The agency could not immediately say how many Canadians and permanent residents typically cross the border at this time of the year. “If you are a Canadian abroad, register with the government now so we can send you updates and contact you. You need to do this if you haven’t done it already.”
Unbelievable. Most are citizens of convenience living permanently in their old countries etc. Why would they be entitled to come 'home' which is not their home and put to risk millions. Yes tourists but not residents of foreign countries. If not offered most would stay there.
Put them in quarantine asylum please
How many were returning Canadians? Some time down the road we'll have to examine the wisdom of government telling people to come home during a Pandemic. Contagious and travelling. Wise?
How many were snowbirds, happy to stay put in Florida, if they had health care coverage? It would have been safer to extend it, for them, the people they contacted in traveling, etc.
Most of them to take advantage of the free (paid by the tax payers in Canada ) health care system,free flights and welfare during the covid-19 crisis!Takers!After this mess will end,they will return until the next crisis!Over and over!They have rights as canadian citizens,right?
They did. They even had the choice between official and unofficial points of entry.