The Canadian government of Justin Trudeau is considering a mandatory quarantine in hotels for returning travellers as the country's top doctor warns that easing COVID-19 restrictions too quickly could cause case numbers to shoot up again.
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The federal government says it is looking at options that would make it harder for people to return from foreign trips, after several returnees have tested positive for the Coronavirus in recent weeks.
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said the tools already in place must also be fully utilized. That includes more police enforcement of two-week quarantine rules for arriving travellers.
Canadian citizens are required to pay for the expensive the hotel confinement.
Christine Van Geyn, litigation director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation, took to Twitter to voice her opposition to what she labelled, "prison hotels."
"Just my opinion, but the PM should spend more time getting the vaccine to Canada and less time creating prison hotels.
She said some are "terrified about how they will manage this new cost and isolation. None of this makes sense when the government already required quarantine at home."
The Foundation's Twitter feed also condemned the proposal as going against Canada's Constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
"Forcibly confining Canadians at their own expense is an unjustified infringement on our fundamental mobility rights. This is pandemic theatre and not sound policy."
On January 20, World Politics News reported on the German state of Saxony's plans for a Corona prison to house quarantine patients who refused to stay quarantined.
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