Olivia Walker and her fiance, Daryl Higgins, have been separated by the closure of the border between Canada and the U.S.TORONTO -- Olivia Walker hasn’t been able to see her fiance, Daryl Higgins, in person for more than seven weeks. Not since the border between Canada and the U.S. closed to all non-essential travel in mid-March as a result of the pandemic.That’s because Walker is a Canadian citizen living in Chatham, Ont.
“It’s devastating,” she said. “You wait your whole life to meet the person that you want to marry and in a time of crisis when all of Canada is being told to hunker down with your families and ride this out and stay home and that option was ripped away from us.” “There’s no point in even trying because he can’t cross so he’s just going to be in the same situation that I was in because the borders is solid, closed at this point,” Heinbach said.The question of who is allowed to travel across the border during the pandemic has been a difficult one to answer for many Canadian and U.S. citizens, according to Nastaran Roushan, an immigration lawyer based in Toronto.
The immigration lawyer said that’s why it remains unclear if family reunification as a reason for travelling across the border is considered discretionary under the current restrictions. “Quite frankly, we don’t know exactly what documents the CBSA is relying on, if they have their own internal documents that they’ve published and haven’t made public about what to look for and what questions to ask,” she said. “All we know is that people are getting disparate treatment.”
As if all these Americans even want to come to Canada. Trudeau’s self-righteous tone is nauseating. Let people cross the border if they want. Get out of our lives.
God we Canadians can get self-righteous. As if all of America even wants to come up to Canada. This is just political BS.
This filthy monster needs to be burned at the stake. I would pay to watch.
Fuck him
Le petit dauphin JustinTrudeau couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel. He's an incompetent, arrogant and condescending boob and you a**holes in the media fluff him each and every day.
Tell the man to open Google Maps, search for Roxham Road, cross the border there, RCMP bellhops will carry his luggage and he will get all sorts of free stuff from taxpayers
Ridiculous
He explained NOTHING who are you kidding CTV?
Uh..not to be insensitive but I’m pretty sure his partner was pregnant before the borders shut down.. so suck it up..a lot worse situations people have had to deal with like not being there when their loved ones die...
During the Second World War there were many fathers that came home after two years to meet their one year old children.
What about supporting Canadians musicians!
Sorry I don’t do anything CTV. Fake news.
Ah, political answers.. I bet you $1000 you can easily create a basic AI that can imitate this PM's answers. Just keep political rhetoric. You can say No and be firm for once..
I wish I was In Sweden..Real Democracy.
I do not call JT ‘our leader’. I agree 100% that is not ‘essential travel’. I suppose if the guy was on a 14 day quarantine guaranteed at his expense, perhaps. 🤷🏼♀️ but if he’s just whipping over, no.
No compassion, no empathy. Sacred, family events such as a birth should not be missed, especially for the lie that this lockdown is!
And the repky of the boarder guard was disgusting. Saying your spouse has to he hit by a car before you can enter to see your kid. What a joke. That guard better get fired!!
Canadians can’t even be with their dying parents right now. Children can’t have parents with them in some hospitals. This isn’t ESSENTIAL travel . Never mind the fact that he’s coming from the States!! Think people...... think!
I wonder if Roxham rd is a two way street!!!!
But going to the cottage to spend time with your family is ok.
Essential travel is anything you want to do If you want to go outside go outside If you want to go have people over to your house have people over to your house
This man simply has to arrive at Plattsburg, ny, where the advertised taxi delivers him to Roxham Rd, Quebec and he walks across the grass where Trudeau paid each homeowner last yr, $50,0000 to accommodate the inconvenience of border crossers for his UN seat and taxpayers give $
Of course it doesn’t apply to the PM visiting his wife in another province.
What explanation, he didn't even answer the question?
He didn't explain anything.....
Our borders are not closed. I know of an American who came up two weeks ago and was not ordered to quartantine because he was exempt. He was not a doctor, not a govt official or a commercial driver he was in oil and gas.
Was that an answer?
just a complete failure as a leader he's been a decrease to this country I don't no what will become of Canada before he leaves .
He lectures Canadians and he can't even hold his marriage together.
Are there not flights out of Vancouver to China and back ? I believe there’s day?
I don't understand why anybody would ask Trudeau about border crossing when he allows people to walk across ours, ignored his own advise to stay at home, and broke Quebec law by going to his cottage. Kinda like asking Jack the ripper about violence against women.
Yet he let hundreds of tbousands of undocumented unvetted and unvaccinated migrants into our country snd handed them a cheque and health care on arrival.
Boy do i despise this garbage of a human
Would the return of a MP who has decided to ride out the pandemic in Oklahoma to her riding in Calgary be considered essential travel?
A real reporter would have asked about his essential travel on Easter
CTV MISLEADS! PMJT refuses to shed any light whatsoever on what is considered essential travel while failing to address the question. Instead, he drones on in his usual obsequiously condescending tones while saying NOTHING, a tactic perfected by his govt to avoid accountability.
Easy enough to comment when you can’t relate and feel high and mighty at home behind your keyboard spewing ignorant words ... marriage is one thing, birth of their child is another. Whether they open the borders for that reason or not have compassion
But he is allowed to travel and visit family! Got it! Liberal rules!
The government does give a damn about its people if they did bringing families together would have been a priority I’m not making any sacrifices people at the end of the day will do what’s right for them and the government is not in control of our lives
Why can’t JT ever give a direct answer
Keep the borders closed for the rest of 2020. We haven’t been in isolation for nothing! Infections are down in Canada. Let’s stay vigilant. The American government doesn’t care if people die- be it American or Canadian. 🤬
Yeah CHINA !!
Still never answers the question
My brother was not able to come into Canada for my mother's funeral in April... so boohoo to the entitled couple that wants to get married!
It was a simple yes or no ...
Essential travel? Anything involving Trudeau and his private jet while lecturing us peons about just how UN-essential we are, and how dare we hurt the climate
The day before Trudeau has to announce news that he finds embarrassing which could potential mean a caucus mutiny he'll shave his beard off and cut his short in an attempt to distract you.
Umm ummmm err errr shhhh ahhhb
Interesting. “...the RULES that are in place...” I thought these were “guidelines” & that we were a free people living in a free country able to freely make decisions on our own. At least our PM is good at telling Moms to leave the room & helping our kids with their homework.
Day 70 of 14 day quarantine
Why is trudeau still allowing flights in from China during the Corona virus ?
If like to see a banner headline that says “Trudeau answers questions”
I didn’t hear an answer to the question but that’s so typical of this Prime Minister
Agree, if you make one exception, then u have to make all exceptions. It’s so sad but look at all those who have died alone, with families on the outside helpless etc.....it’s sad but necessary. My niece had her first child without her husband because he was away with the army
my vacation is essential travel and more important than anything else you imagine Chicken PM
Was a yes or no question.. wow this is why we are in such a shit. Our leaders dance around questions when public expects direct answers...JustinTrudeau francoislegault
What a loser! Wouldn't close borders to China while the pandemic was building up, now won't let an American be there for birth of his Canadian child.
Going to Tofino or Florida by private jet twice a month for weekend beach fun, counts as 'essential travel' during a Climate Emergency. I wonder if it is still acceptable during pandemics?
No
That's not essential come and see your kid when it's safe.
A simple yes or no would have been better
this is all well and good but can he explain how he's going to question the CCP on the origins of the CCPVirus? Blackface can't even negotiate a hostage release. two Canadians have been locked up without access to their families for over 500 days in China. 1/2
Stay strong Justin. People are saying goodbye to their dying loved ones over the phone. These fools should be happy that they are getting to bring a life into the world and stop complaining. The boarder is CLOSED for a reason. Stay the F home!
More word salad and platitudes and no direct answer to the question
$20 says that corrupt POS will be surfing this long weekend in Tofino - the rest of is get to pay for it. cdnpoli
You know, great, she's giving birth. Is he the one delivering the baby? Does he absolutely need to be there for the birth? No on both counts. Sorry, but wait it out like the rest of us.
Open the border dummy so we can get on with our lives. Most Americans don’t want to come here and I don’t blame them. Enough of this crap already it’s time to restart the economy!
That’s what porn hub is for
CTV is becoming GLOBAL TV.
Months? They didnt listen apparently
Who care?
Imagine how all the dead people feel...
Omg. Boohooo. Seriously. There’s more important things to write about. The whole world is separated from loved ones.
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