Negative Co-vid test required as of Jan 07, 2021 to enter Canada.
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Are you kidding me with this comment? first of all my partner didn't travel to Mexico, by partner is *mexican* and is coming to canada to start our life together. If you think immigration is 'too expensive and risky' for canada then by all means, LEAVE.
This entire country is funded by immigrants who pay exorbitant costs to come here. Immigrants literally pay for your healthcare system. If you disagree then maybe you shouldn't be here. Try russia instead, where the population literally goes down every year. Seriously buddy you are in the wrong forum.
Where did you get the idea I'm anti-immigrant?
There's nothing about the immigration process that is cheap or convenient in the first place (although I wouldn't call it exorbitant). In the midst of this pandemic, the government is not concerned with the inconvenience or additional cost to immigrants / travellers of getting covid tests. They're concerned about the risk to Canadians and cost to the health care system.
Those are just the facts.
Disagree. And they added 96-hours testing for fifteen countries to help people like me.
You just sound exactly like the type of person who would tell someone “you are the right kind of immigrant!”
The government is showing they are a little flexible. Hopefully you don't catch covid within the extra hours.
I'm glad that the government reducing the inconvenience for some countries has resolved your issue.
I see. So nothing I actually said, but something you imagined I might say.
The immigration process isn't even fully covered by immigrants - tax paying Canadians and PRs have to cover the rest. Let's see some hard proofs that immigrants literally pay for our healthcare system & that the entire country is funded by immigrants. What does Russia have to do with anything?
The fees have slowly increased because the taxpayers who were already in Canada were shouldering a large cost of the application fees. There are too many people who are travelling for leisure and with the UK, South African and other variants Covid has become more contagious. If people travelled less and socialized less then businesses may have been able to open more.
Requiring that your spouse remain quarantined for 14 days away from you and other Canadians is to protect you and the health system. There have been cases of both the UK variant and the South African variant already in Canada and the rates of covid have increased dramatically over the past 2 months and will only get worse because the majority of people socialized over Christmas. Personally I did not but many other travelled and saw friends and family. Not sure why you are under the impression that immigrants pay for the healthcare system but all residents of Canada do which is why all taxpayers (including immigrants) have access to the system as long as they meet the residency requirements.
In order to return to Canada you must do the PCR version of the covid test because the rapid test is only around 70% effective at detecting covid. Rapid tests are still offered at many places and I would suggest that anyone arriving in Canada take a test but one can not count on the results. Even with the PCR test you are only negative at the time of the test but the test doesn’t have a large false negative rate. Please google before questioning many of my posts.
Ottawa’s rate has been going up daily unite significantly and we haven’t seen the impact of Christmas and New Year’s yet since there is a 2-3+ week delay between when people realize they are infected and then get tested and then there is a 1-2 week period after that when people get hospitalized. In another month you can comment on the rates in Ottawa. Ottawa has been lucky so far but will need to accept transfers from the rest of Ontario who have very little ICU capacity.
