PM: Mandatory hotel quarantine will require travellers to pay ‘more than $2K’ at their own expense

The prime minister answers questions about a mandatory hotel quarantine and says non-essential travellers will have to quarantine in a designated hotel for three days at their own expense while they await results. He says that's expected to cost more than $2000.

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46 comments

  1. Again too little too late. These should have been in place before the Ontario Finance minister went away for holiday.

    1. restrict the movements of politicians only and lay them off…see how fast the Covid menace disappears when they are not getting paid

    2. Then again, the USA took no measures at all, and Donald even said “we’ll get Canada’s border back open.”

    1. ya and what’s the point of stopping the spread of a flu that’s already in every crevice of the planet and country

    2. @Glenn Truax If I remember right, I think I heard him say that on CPAC last winter when the Opposition sugested we shut down the border to protect Canada from “The new emerging virus”.

    3. @Mark Poitras again unsourced material and probably not quoted properly. So this is pure speculation and misinformation.

  2. 2000 for a 3 night hotel stay and covid test. Sounds like liberal cost assessments. I bet Trudeau thinks most hotels cost 500 a night as he has never stayed in a cheaper place.

    1. @Christine Sevigny Do you know how to use that brain meat between your ears or do you need everything spelled out, like a child?

  3. So just fly to New York, walk across Roxham Road where the new field hospital checks you out and you are chauffeured to an all expenses paid hotel.

    1. Yup..then they send them to Leamington and Kingsville..so they can get a free ride here and milk the system with their sad stories and injustices…while our seniors have to show 7 years PROOF after living here for 80 plus years just to get a OHIP renewal to see a Dr that turns them away sick.

  4. 3 days in a hotel and a covid test for $2000 plus hst likely! This is completely ridiculous. He talks like this is a normal hotel charge

    1. It is supposed to be a deterrent you morons and thus the reason for the $2000 charge. Think of it as a fine.

    2. @Worldzworstgamer You’re a degenerate, even NZ and Australia charge 2-3k for the whole 14 days not 3 days, mine aswell not doing the test and save yourself 200$ LMAO

    3. @Karl Nagribianko I am a degenerate? How about you actually put together a quality post without so many mistakes before you talk about others the way you did. Also I guess you don’t understand what deterrent means.

  5. This “mandatory” quarantine is only for CANADIANS returning to Canada. Flights to sun destinations from Canada are now all cancelled, effectively making travel for Canadians almost impossible. HOWEVER, he has placed absolutely ZERO restrictions on non-Canadian international travellers. They are still free to come to Canada and visit family and friends at will. No quarantining and no testing necessary. It is no coincidence that our numbers started to go up when he rolled out the welcome mat for family and friends visitors in October. He is targeting just Canadians, or in other words BLAMING Canadians for bringing covid here. Thousands of non Canadians come to Canada every week, mostly from covid-heavy countries. Once again, so busy buying the immigrant vote, he refuses to do anything that might inconvenience them.

  6. How are they going to force you to pay in advance? Just raid your bank account? Just charge your credit card with an unauthorized charge?

  7. Take the salary away from the EX Governor General and pay the hotel bills of returning Canadians with it ? Problem solved !

  8. Didn’t he say that the quarantine camps didn’t exist just a few weeks ago! Stupid waste of taxpayers money again.

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