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the world's longuest unguarded border in the Covid-19 world. Maybe not such a good idea

Recently published in a number of Canadian local papers -- certainly looks coordinated!!!

Sir,

Not to appear xenophobic, but the US president’s desire to re-open the Canada/USA border fills me with anxiety. Canada has been a serious, united and largely acquiescent of most governments’ decisions vis-a-vis covid-19, we may disagree with the speed of re-opening the economy, but we all seem to agree that the governments took the right decisions and in general we have abided by the new and sometimes difficult rules that were put in place.

The US response has been, something else, and now it appears that the Federal government’s leader, President Donald Trump, is keen to foment rebellion in certain states – it may all come down to nothing, but it seems too well-coordinated – its smells like big money pushing “idiots gun-fodder ahead”. It also appears that China, Korea and Singapore’s new cases of Covid19 were largely caused by people traveling back to their country or visiting family.

I can see certain border adjacent Americans taking the opportunity to find shelter in Canada if they feel that the US system is putting them at risk. At the very least Canada should deploy its arm forces at the border to verify that all those crossing have available shelter when they “guarantee” they will remain isolated for 14 days. Americans are gun lovers, and their right-wing militias are just itching to “do something”. Their commander in chief seems to be giving them “carte blanche” to act stupidly, I think that the Prime Minister and his cabinet are right to want to wait another 30 days before opening the border to unlimited traffic, but more to the point Canada should have the resources in place to guard our frontiers.

It is a terrible thing to say, but America has behaved like an entitled teenager. Maybe its time for Canada to take care of its own!

Signed: A concerned citizen

This shows Americans how Canadians think of the US situation. We are hearing very bad things about the mid-West where medical facilities are poor and where few shelters in place rules have been enacted. The fear is that the world's longest "unguarded" border may be a problem for Canadians

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