In Canada!!?
Canada???
Canada’s land border is closed, closed, closed to Americans — has been for months.
It’s not just the high infection rate (although that alone would be justification enough)… it’s also the insanity of tens of millions of unsanitary American idiots who proudly refuse to protect themselves from becoming virus spreaders because liberty/hoax/Trump.
Polling in Canada has shown the closed-door border is quite popular if that’s what it takes to keep out all those ignorant American babies.
However — there are exceptions.
Canadian citizens living in the USA can come home anytime, even if they are still driving a vehicle with American license plates. They need to start off their homecoming with a strict 14-day self-quarantine — no exceptions. American citizens with spouses, sons/daughters or parents can also cross over to Canada as long as they begin their visit with a self-quarantine.
Americans driving between Alaska and the lower-forty-eight can also enter Canada with a special short-dated permit requiring them to stay in their vehicles except for motels, eat from drive-thrus and take the most direct route.
Unfortunately, several “ugly-Americans” with an overly-developed sense of American-exceptionalism-based entitlement have recently been fined in Canada (to great publicity) for breaking these rules. They’ve been caught dine-in eating, hiking the Rockies and making detours to scenic locations — often after Canadian authorities were tipped off by resentful Canadians.
This abuse of Canadian hospitality has actually prompted public hostility and calls for the Canadian government to close down the “driving to Alaska” loophole. Some people driving U.S.-plated vehicles have been verbally abused on the street by Canadians worried about American cooties. (The social-democrat Premier of British Columbia has responded by pointing out “You never know the full story… don’t rush to judgement and please be kind.”)
Three months ago a Texas-based Canadian father drove his Texas-plated truck to Victoria, British Columbia, where (after a two-week quarantine) he has been visiting his son’s family. The city of Victoria is located on Vancouver Island — and Vancouver Island is not on anybody’s “most direct route” between Alaska and the lower states.
A couple of days ago this Canadian dad woke to find someone had vandalized his Texas-plated truck overnight — smashing windows, stealing the plates and explaining their vandalism with spray-painted messages that linked the American truck to Donald Trump (who is generally disliked and ridiculed in Canada, BTW).
The vandal — in what I’m sure they considered an act of great Canadian patriotism and self-defence -- was sending a clear “Yankee go home!” message to the Canadian owner of this American truck.
I’m fully expecting the Canadian Prime Minister to issue a very Canadian apology to the owner of this vehicle and to everyone anywhere in the world driving pickup trucks with American licence plates.
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