Canada’s travel and tourism industry urges Trudeau gov’t to drop ‘unscientific’ COVID mandates
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The Canadian Travel & Tourism Roundtable is ‘calling on the federal government to provide urgent relief at the border by alleviating pressures currently facing travelers at Canada’s airports before June 15, 2022.’
(LifeSiteNews) – Leaders from Canada’s travel and tourism industry have demanded that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “unscientific and unnecessary COVID policies,” including jab mandates, be scrapped within two weeks.
In a press release sent out yesterday, the Canadian Travel & Tourism Roundtable (the Roundtable), comprised of representatives from airlines, hotels, airports and travel organizations, said it is “calling on the federal government to provide urgent relief at the border by alleviating pressures currently facing travelers at Canada’s airports before June 15, 2022.”
The Roundtable continued by saying that it is “urging the federal government to take the following short-term actions, to alleviate pressure on the system,” by its deadline.
The actions it advises are the following:
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Remove vaccination mandates for Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) workers;
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Remove the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) duplicate health checks and questions through ArriveCan at government checkpoints
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Relocate or remove on-site mandatory random testing from Canada’s airports; and,
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Establish clear service standard benchmarks for security and customs processing of passengers travelling through Canadian airports.