Also this “Once vaccinated there is no reason why a parent could not travel home”
That may well be the case - but the fact is that demand/applications for PR status under PGP are many times over the number of slots allocated.
Has nothing to do with colonialism and mostly has to with the option to live close to family, to have access to free healthcare, etc. If someone is staying in Canada for long periods of time their ties to their home country are not that strong.
Your argument was that parents on supervisas should be able to become PRs because it is too dangerous to travel home because of covid. Their health is not guaranteed while in Canada but once fully vaccinated the chance of them dying from covid decreases to such a low level that yes it will be safe to travel home. They should wear a mask to increase the protection even further. Canada can't be responsible for everyone's health. Based on your argument no parent or grandparent should be let into Canada either because it is too risky.
Simple solution would be to guarantee extension until they get vaccinated.
My issue with that is that first of all not even doctors have conclusively said the vaccine will guarantee things as it’s such a new virus. The other issue is the more problematic one. Vaccine rollouts are a mess right now. The first dose and 2nd dose gap is 4 months. People without healthcards aren’t being allowed to book appointments please search CP 24 or cbc to confirm this. Extensions request refusal due to not being guaranteed and unable to get the vaccine dose or delay between doses will prove to be fatal for elderly parents. It would make much more snes rot regularize people stranded here. My final point it is someone’s choice to enter Canada in the future very well knowing that it’s a pandemic which is why this policy wouldn’t apply to them
I can assure you IRCC would never ever ever ever take on that liability by using the word guarantee. Never has a precedent been set before in Canadian policy history. They would much rather covert supervisa to PR than to provide such a guarantee.
Why wouldn't your fight be for guaranteed extensions until someone has been vaccinated? That would a much easier and palatable solution versus your push for your parents to get automatic PR which will never happen. You can certainly try but there are temporary solutions to this temporary problem.
Maybe the issue does not interested you. At least in the interest of that poster.
This is quite absurd, your proposal is obviously trying to get a personal advantage from the pandemic that fits your needs. You propose a permanent, significantly different alternative to address a temporary issue related to a temporary status. The obvious solution to your problem is to propose the guaranteed approval of extension until the end of the pandemic, which would be a very reasonable thing to ask in my opinion, therefore maintaining the same benefits and not granting any permanent new benefits to current holders of TEMPORARY visas.
The current research has shown that if vaccinated and you get infected with a variant strain you will have a milder infection. Have you or your parents left the house since last January? If so you have also been at risk of contracting covid. I always said that eventually everyone will be vaccinated. In some municipalities people without healthcards are already being vaccinated and being vaccinated for free. Most Canadians haven't been vaccinated so it will take some time. This doesn't mean that parents should get automatic PR. Your argument to have a permanent solution to a temporary problem doesn't make sense but also will lead to multiple lawsuits for anyone wanting their parents to get PR.
You should only be getting a vaccination in your own municipality just like everyone else. People need to wait until they qualify for vaccinations based on their local vaccination programs.
