It’s now Winter in North America with nothing much edible growing under the snow and ice.
What’s about to happen in North America is not the stuff of a Netflix movie, something streamed on a cable television network, or a bogus escape into the Metaverse with Mark Zuckerberg, because it’s true life reality.
The trucking of goods across all of North America is coming to an incremental dangerous halt.
The political leaders of both Canada and the U.S. are fixated on preventing the Covid unvaccinated from doing their jobs—even when those jobs mean the delivery of food.
Starting with Canada, whose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently castigated all unvaccinated Canadians as: “They are extremists who don’t believe in science, they’re often misogynists, also often racists. It’s a small group that muscles in, and we have to make a choice in terms of leaders, in terms of the country. Do we tolerate these people? Or do we say, hey, most of the Quebecois people—80%—are vaccinated. We want to come back to things we like doing. It’s not those people who are blocking us.”
The federal government announced changes to Canada’s border and travel restrictions in November, including updated vaccine requirements for truck drivers crossing the border.
“In order to enter Canada, truck drivers and other essential-service providers, including emergency workers, have until Jan. 15 to be fully inoculated with government-approved vaccines. Truckers will also need to upload their proof of vaccination in the ArriveCAN phone app. (IPolitics, Jan. 6, 2022)
“Transport Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Canada Border Services Agency are still deciding how to enforce the rules.”
In Canada, aside from the somewhat puny resistance of Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, who wants the government to “reconsider” its Jan. 15 deadline for cross-border truck drivers to be fully vaccinated against COVID if they want to keep their jobs, no one, aside from unvaccinated truckers, is raising the alarm.
“We will be short tens of thousands of truckers, if the government doesn’t very quickly address this issue,” O’Toole said Thursday. (IPolitics)
“It means we have to deal with the reality (that prices will) skyrocket for groceries, for everything, (if) tens of thousands of truckers are unemployed.”
As people must feed families, this is no time for half way measures.
“On Wednesday, the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) said it was preparing for the vaccine mandates, and noticed more truckers quitting. (IPolitics)
“There are substantial reports of higher-than-normal turnover, and others declaring their intention to leave the industry or seek employment in the provincially regulated sector,” CTA president Stephen Laskwoski wrote in a statement.
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