Premier Doug Ford says he is still waiting for a response from the Prime Minister, saying we cannot sit back and watch the fourth wave of COVID-19 walk across our border.
ONTARIO - Premier Doug Ford is still waiting for an answer from the Federal Government about tougher border restrictions.
Ford says they have sent three urgent letters asking for immediate action over the past two weeks and directly appealed to the Prime Minister last Thursday. No formal response has been given.
In a statement provided to the radio station, Premier Ford says there has been no indication that any further action is coming to stop the importation of variants into Canada.
"Over the same two-week period, over 150,000 people came into Canada through our land borders and more than 65,000 through our airports. As well, 35 international and 23 domestic flights from outside Ontario landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport with COVID-positive passengers. Many of these planes carried multiple people infected with the virus and exposed an unknown number of other travellers arriving in Ontario."
Ford say more needs to be done and we cannot sit back and watch the fourth wave of COVID-19 walk across our border.
"These cases and countless others could have been avoided had action been taken sooner. We are once again pleading with the federal government to impose stricter measures at our borders, including banning all non-essential travel, implementing pre-departure PCR testing for domestic flights and closing the quarantine loophole at land border crossings."
Right now people are taking flights into the US and then driving into Canada to avoid the quarantine orders.
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