First Hand Story of a Canadian Traveler

From SDA regular, Boots:

Canadian arrives this week from Mexico into Vancouver and avoids all mandates including ArriveCAN, PCR testing before and after flight, masks and quarantine. Remo was firm, informed and prepared…. and the customs officers backed off. He shares how to record your experience, what documents you should have on hand, and what evidence you need to gather on the spot to protect yourself.
Do not consent. Do not comply.*

*Opinion only, not advice. — Kate

32 Replies to “First Hand Story of a Canadian Traveler”

  1. Hey Bitches…
    Just been contemplating what is wrong and how we’ve gotten to this point in history.
    MASCULINITY
    Some people have it and many don’t or has been eroded out of them.
    Leadership that have this personality are vilified and scorned.

    Just watch anything currently on the boob tube and it’s pure gay of feminism and getting more and more hostile and angry that something is missing and they just don’t know what it is.

    Women are very protective of their mates that have this personality and can show a bit of ‘micro-aggression’ for what is theirs.

    1. Exactly………..blows my mind how these MALES have been transformed into someone with NO backbone………..I still believe that most women, not those that IDENTIFY as a woman, truly do want a man to be a strong man and protect them and those around her……….not these sissy little men that you see everywhere today………

      I know a guy that works 12 hr days X4 days in a row and then will also be called in for Time, but when he is home his little princess wife wants him to HELP her bathe the 8 month old BABY, and or feed the baby……….sheesh, can’t these people do anything for themselves???

  2. Something to note if you’re flying into Alberta and Saskatchewan is that those two provinces did not sign on to the federal government’s Contraventions Act Program. Unless something has changed, my understanding is that the Quarantine Act fines are not being issued or enforced in our provinces.

    “Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only provinces that haven’t signed on to the Contraventions Act, which gives police additional powers to enforce the Quarantine Act and makes…”

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/alberta-cant-ticket-travellers-refusing-110000509.html

    Perhaps this has changed but I’ve not read about Saskatchewan and Alberta signing on to the Contraventions Act.

    1. true . and i made my escape to florida from alberta thru montreal. i did it at max time , spring break when i knew that the “officers” had no time and scurried hundreds at a time through with the wave of a hand.

      the civil servants there are slacker than toronto where they have made a career out of harassments .

      came back thru calgary .

      didnt want to leave thru calgary because usa customs is there.

      i more than bank on the useless civil servants

      1. Smart. Although some civil servants love to abuse their power so it’s a luck of the draw thing. When I lived close to the border, everyone knew who the power trippers were and found out when they were on or off shift.

  3. For more information on the Contraventions Act, here’s the link:

    https://canada.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/cp-pm/eval/rep-rap/2021/contraventions/results-resultats.html

    “As for the Contraventions Act Program, it consists of a range of responsibilities undertaken by the Department to implement the contraventions regime. To this end, Justice has signed agreements with participating provinces to make existing provincial ticketing schemes applicable to federal contraventions.”

    “Recommendation 2: The Programs Branch should pursue options to secure the participation of the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta in the contraventions regime, or establish alternative means by which the regime can be applicable, to the extent possible, in these two provinces.”

  4. I really like the turnabout is fair play tactic of using a body cam to put the sniveling cowards on camera and light up their lives.

  5. You must always be aware of your rights. Air Canada is one of the biggest abusers now and in the past. I had visited Scotland in 2017, to leave Glasgow airport at 8:00 a.m. on Air Canada for Toronto. The flight did not leave until 2:00 p.m. An American woman who visited her daughter often in Glasgow, informed my sister and I and another man from Winkler, Manitoba about the European Union’s Air Passenger rights. If the flight has been delayed longer than 2hours and NOT because of weather (we were told “mechanical” difficulties), then you get your airfare refunded. So upon arrival back home, I researched on line and printed off the EU’s Passenger rights and had the original ticket and the boarding pass for when we actually boarded. You must be prepared to do your homework. The Air Canada representative told my sister and I that we were only getting our airfare refunded because we knew our rights. So out of a flight of 350 passengers, the American woman, the man from Winkler and my sister and I had our airfares refunded.
    Also be polite, do not use foul language and be persistent.

  6. Second hand story but a friend’s mother was selected for a random test upon return to Toronto in April. She asked the agent if the selection was random and was told yes. She said “Then pick somebody else” and walked away. There was no consequence.

  7. Here’s the deal with Quarantine Act in Alberta and Saskatchewan: you can’t be ticketed under the Contraventions Act but you can be charged under the Quarantine Act with failure to comply with an order prohibiting or subjecting to any condition regulating the entry into Canada, contrary to section 58 of the Quarantine Act.

    The latter entails a peace officer issuing you with an Appearance Notice to court and then submitting the charging paperwork to the crown prosecutor who may then approve the charge. Will they do it? Depends on how busy and energetic are the crown and the police. It’s generally easier for them just to give warnings in both those provinces. They may also look to make an example of someone. It’s hard to tell. I’m not sure how many folks have been compelled to court in Alta or Sask for Quarantine Act Violations. Will the judge throw out the charge? Again, it depends on how good is the defense argument. I believe that if you pay enough for a good lawyer it would be thrown out. I have it on good authority that the courts in Alberta currently have 24 hours of potential court case time for only 8 hours of actually court time. I don’t think a Quarantine Act case will trump a domestic assault or a robbery charge.
    The fellow in the video may yet be charged.

    So the section you can be charged which is:

    Order prohibiting entry into Canada
    58 (1) The Governor in Council may make an order prohibiting or subjecting to any condition the entry into Canada of any class of persons who have been in a foreign country or a specified part of a foreign country if the Governor in Council is of the opinion that
    (a) there is an outbreak of a communicable disease in the foreign country;
    (b) the introduction or spread of the disease would pose an imminent and severe risk to public health in Canada;
    (c) the entry of members of that class of persons into Canada may introduce or contribute to the spread of the communicable disease in Canada; and
    (d) no reasonable alternatives to prevent the introduction or spread of the disease are available.

    The penalty if charged:

    71. Every person who contravenes subsection section 58 is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than $750,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than six months, or to both.

    1. Thank you.

      So, technically there’s some risk involved. I suspect that Alberta and Saskatchewan would handle this situation similar to how they handled the federal gun registry ; they quietly refused to enforce federal law. It sounds like most of these quarantine act fines are being thrown out by the courts. So a risk, but it looks like a small and rapidly fading risk considering how much bad publicity the ArriveCan app and Quarantine Act are getting.

    2. Ridiculous! No such thing as 750k fine in the Quarantine Act for regular travellers, only for the conveyance operators (busses, planes, trains). Read the Act and come back.

      1. The part you are referring to in the Quarantine Act is under General Powers in Sec. 47

        Powers of inspection

        47 (1) A quarantine officer or an environmental health officer may, to determine whether a conveyance or place, or any contents within it, could be the source of a communicable disease, or whether a traveller has or might have a communicable disease or is infested with vectors, and to enforce this Act,

        (a) stop a conveyance, at an entry or departure point or anywhere else in Canada, and direct that it be moved to a place where an inspection can be carried out;
        (b) enter and inspect the conveyance or any place where the conveyance has been;
        (c) open and examine any cargo, container, baggage, package or other thing;
        (d) require any person to produce any record under any terms and conditions that, in the opinion of the officer, are necessary to carry out the inspection;
        (e) except with respect to a traveller, conduct or cause to be conducted any test or analysis or take or cause to be taken any sample; and
        (f) except with respect to a traveller, take any measurement.

        However, Emergency Orders in Sec. 58 issued by the Govt. of Canada over-rule that section. It applies to “any class of persons”. If someone believes that there is a conflict between an Emergency Order under Sec. 58 and General Powers under Sec. 47, then they can take their case to court. Not sure how the courts will see it.

        58 (1) The Governor in Council may make an order prohibiting or subjecting to any condition the entry into Canada of any class of persons who have been in a foreign country or a specified part of a foreign country if the Governor in Council is of the opinion that
        (a) there is an outbreak of a communicable disease in the foreign country;
        (b) the introduction or spread of the disease would pose an imminent and severe risk to public health in Canada;
        (c) the entry of members of that class of persons into Canada may introduce or contribute to the spread of the communicable disease in Canada; and
        (d) no reasonable alternatives to prevent the introduction or spread of the disease are available.

        The penalty for violating Sec. 58 is under Sec. 71:

        71. Every person who contravenes subsection section 58 is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than $750,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than six months, or to both.

  8. “Why aren’t you wearing a mask?”
    “I’m exempt.”
    (no follow up)

    ______________________________________

    That’s going to work about .00000000001% of the time. I’m kind of surprised it worked for this guy.

  9. Those notices of liability are worthless and meaningless. They hold no legal weight. They are feel good measures. Don’t waste your time.

    You can indeed sue any person in authority (ie. RCMP, CBSA or PHAC officer) that you encounter at the airport but all those organizations have huge legal networks designed to defend their employees. I hope you have deep pockets for legal services if you plan to sue.

    As an uninjected traveler, the easiest thing for you to do if you don’t agree with system and want to live as much as a normal life after returning to Canada is to submit to the tests and reporting and then not quarantine. Your life is pretty much as per normal. Be aware that you will, however, be entered on the police computer for 14 days so if you get checked by the police for any reason while out of quarantine, like being involved in a traffic collision, you’ll pop up as “prohibited” on the system. You’ll have to do some quick thinking/talking then.

    At home verification by the police for quarantining individuals is only normally done if you miss one of the reporting steps and then you’ll probably only get a warning or “education”. The paperwork to charge someone is too onerous for a police officer to bother with. You have to weigh that against not complying immediately at the airport and the dollar amount of a fine in ticketing provinces or the trouble of going to court and potentially ending up with a criminal record if charged and convicted under the Quarantine Act in Alta and Sask. If there were enough uninjected Canadians things would be different, like in the US. But here, like in other sheep filled countries (NZ, Australia, Japan, Western Europe), the courts won’t likely support dissenters and free thinkers. We need to change the govt, soon!

    1. Complying with abusive government policies is what got us into this mess in the first place. I think the tide is turning because 1) more people are fed up and 2) courage is contagious.

      It’s important to stand up for your principles…if that was easy then it wouldn’t be called the having the courage of your convictions. Besides I’m pretty sure I’m already on a list for proudly contributing to the freedom convoy.

      1. I understand. Complying with insane covid regulations is unappetizing. It eats at your soul.

        I just don’t want people to incur life altering consequences such as getting a criminal record.

        The best thing to do is to change the system by free-thinkers working hard during the next election to get rid of JT and his cabal.

        1. There is a lot of nonsense propagated by the PHOs with ridiculous amounts of fines. Even if they write tickets, they must be in amounts stipulated for the alleged offences by “Regulations Amending the Contraventions Regulations (Quarantine Act): SOR/2020-86” (https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2020/2020-04-14-x1/html/sor-dors86-eng.html), if you get more than that, laugh and contest in court:
          Fine ($)
          1 12 Failure to present oneself to a screening officer at the nearest entry point 275$
          2 15(1) Failure to answer a relevant question asked by a screening officer or quarantine officer or to provide the officer with any required information or record 275$
          3 15(2) Failure to disclose specified information concerning a listed communicable disease or vectors 275$
          4 15(3) Failure to comply with a reasonable measure ordered by a screening officer or quarantine officer 500$
          5 25(1) Failure to comply with an order to report to a public health authority 275$
          6 26 Failure to comply with an order regarding a treatment or a measure for preventing the introduction and spread of a communicable disease 750$
          7 58 Failure to comply with an order prohibiting or subjecting to any condition the entry into Canada 1000$
          8 65(1) Enter a quarantine facility without authorization 275$
          9 65(2) Leave a quarantine facility without authorization 750$
          10 66 (a) Hinder or wilfully obstruct a quarantine officer, screening officer or environmental health officer 500$
          (b) Make a false or misleading statement to a quarantine officer, screening officer or environmental health officer 275$

          PHOs are also not the ones supposed to write tickets, it should be the peace officers (police). But the police refused to do that, it seems. So, PHOs do it as a form of gaslighting. What a mess! Any court will throw these tickets out.

        2. Do you really believe in fair elections? Selection, yes. Hence, a new puppet will be installed.

  10. Maybe he caught this customs agent when he was in a good mood or just didn’t want the bother. Let’s not forget that customs agents have the power, including arrest, to make your life very unpleasant.

    1. Friend of a friend said, “ I knew I’d pushed Customs too far when I heard the snap of the rubber gloves”

  11. There is certain luck involved in this story.
    First: Airline. Air Canada would’ve refused to allow him on the plane without the set of jabs, test and/or arrivecan crap. What would you do? They don’t care.
    Second: Customs could’ve stopped him but he got a weaker guy.
    The most important barrier is to get on the plane.
    As to the Notice of Liability is a 50/50 chance. It did help me when I served it the Long term care facility where my mother is located to avert her being covid vaccinated. This is why she is still alive. All residents on the floor have been murdered by the inoculations in a short period of time.

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