The American CEO of Costco was granted a special exemption from Canada’s mandatory 14-day COVID-19 quarantine to attend the openings of the grocery chain’s newest outlets, a CBC News investigation has learned.
Craig Jelinek and another top company executive, Joe Portera, travelled to Canada aboard a private Gulfstream jet in late August for a three-day store inspection blitz that took them to Ontario, Quebec and Alberta — the epicentres of this country’s novel coronavirus outbreak.
He’s a hardcore leftist. The Politburo and all their benefactors are MORE EQUAL than you.
buried in the article:
“The company said Jelinek and Portera have tested negative for COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic and that neither will attend the opening of a new store in Niagara Falls, Ont., in mid-November. ”
so, 2 rich executives, who likely have been able to afford regular testing, and were likely tested negative for the duration of the trip, need to be quarantined if they visit here….
can’t have anything challenging the narrative
At least we Canadian taxpayers didn’t front him $12-million to buy some new freezers for his stores like we did for Galen Weston. So I guess we’ve got that going for us (comment writer slaps forehead, looks for something strong to drink).
“mistakes by front line CBSA”
Right, following orders from the President of CBSA and the Minister of Public Safety is a “mistake”. Throw the officer under the bus when convenient.
Then, you have someone refused at the US border being told she must self-isolate upon turning back.
Something sure stinks.
What “mistake”? The CBSA has only been handing out brochures and telling people to “promise” to isolate themselves. Last I heard there have been less than two dozen tickets handed out to isolation-violators.
Do these Executives think they have special privileges especially from catching germs from us, the common folk? Why, why — they came all this way and didn’t come to the opening of their own new store!
/ sarc.
If I recall, the weather in the City of Calgary was really warm at the end of August. Check out the beautiful Hudson’s Bay coat worn by one for ceremonial purpose at this COSTCO opening. Shame on the Executives for not showing up. Have they not heard of social distancing? They could’ve worn a Hudson Bay coat too, you know, to protect them from germs along with their masks. Right. They don’t likely wear masks.
Here’s the article from Calgary.
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/mobile/costco-opens-on-tsuut-ina-nation-company-s-first-store-on-an-indigenous-development-in-canada-1.5083081
P.S. Good, another store here.
Galen doesn’t get all my business. Can’t forgive him for taking a grant for new freezers from Climate Barbie. I spread my business around. Patterson from B.C. gets some when I shop at Save-On-Foods and those boys from Stellarton N.S. when I shop at Sobey’s and Safeway. I even have a membership at Co-Op.
Costco has great stuff. For years I avoided them. For the last 22 years I’ve been happy to shop there.
Once when a worker accidentally bumped my hand with a cart and quickly apologized I was amazed that a supervisor from the store was waiting for me when I came out of the Ladies room to see if I was okay. Ice from the machine nearby was handy, so no worries, I told them. We were all civil and nice. Hand had a nice purple shiner!
Wow, you are touching the “conservatives” sacred cow: the Big Business. What changed?
And why does this matter while the torrent of infected “refugees” keeps flowing through Roxham Rd?
Yeah, wondering the same. Want to blame someone, blame CBSA or the corrupt Liberal responsible, they’re all corrupt after all.
What’s with the KAREN’s? Cmon man. We’re better than that. Out here in BC, the NDP has cowed much of the population to be paranoid, freaked out sheep named KAREN.
Enough already, xenophobia seems to be alive and well amongst the leftist SHEEP.
I think the double standard is worth noting. That poor Quebec woman who was turned away at the border was told to quarrantine for 14 days — ludicrous. I don’t mind the exemptions, but I object to a double standard.
Roxham Road?? They fly in daily to Vancouver, Calgary out here, both “international hubs”. Have been doing so all through COVID Time, since before the New Year. I’ll 检疫 right away! Bunch of ’em live on my quiet crescent. KA-choooo, I hab a code, snif. See them down at Superstore, or at the new COSTCO.
I made a habit of asking big box stores what the limit for customers in the store was.Costco was 550. Yet a local drive-in movie theatre(Langley.B.C.) was only allow to have 19 people.HUH???
Yeah, gotta love the moving goalposts of mousy Bonnie. Nothing consistent about different gatherings and numbers, just worry wart darts at the board.
FYI, had to drop off a group 2 weeks ago Saturday night in downtown Victoria.
Plague, what plague? It was like a party downtown, kind of surreal.
Doug Ford and Bonnie would pass out at the sight of so many people. The young know they have a 99.8% survival rate, they’re not stupid.
The paranoia is also surreal, just look at all the sheep wearing masks, that have now been shown by the CDCs actual measured results, to be INEFFECTIVE. Hmmmmm, looks like the wishy washy medical authorities, that have flip flopped so much, should have stuck to their opening position, that masks are ineffective.
Fauci, Tam, and wee Bonnie all said so early on. Clearly, they have been pressured by politics to state otherwise.
The regulations are not rationale. There are many inconsistencies. None of it helping anyway.
And then there’s that lady who tried to cross the border into the US, was rejected, but ordered to quarantined for 14 days.
But these stories of elite exemptions are so common as to be too trite to cite. Eh?
Exactly my thought. I want to see the elites get in line for their vaccinations first.
I am exempt and I am not a commie. Just stop doing what the idiots tell you to do. They really do want to kill you if they can’t control you. I know Canadians are mushy cowards and hate to rock the boat. Someone better start rocking the damn boat before Canada is gone. Many will will say it is already gone and they are probably right.
Older cat supervising at a Vancouver advance poll place.
Mask AND face shield.
My wife was with me and dreading her elbow I usually STFU.
But I couldn’t resist: ‘heh, all ya need now is a motorcycle helmet’.
Meant of course to garner the cat’s chuckle. Nope, he didn’t want to get the bug. I said, ya mean the one that people without other serious health issues have a 99.5% survival rate. Not people our age he replied. True, I said, for 70 y.o.s it drops all the way down to 97%.
Average age of fatalities in the US from the whu who flu 78.2 yrs, average age from the seasonal flu 78.4 yrs.
re: the thread headline:
My favourite Chinkflu* slogan, emblazoned on a nearby supermarket window is: Come together but stay apart.
A BC gubmint slogan goes: More spaces – fewer faces.
* I mean no disrespect to ordinary Chinese people, whom I mostly really like; referring to CCP aparatchiks.
And how about Canada’s over 3 million public sector workers – are they also part of “we’re all in this together”? None have been laid off. Many are at home receiving full pay and benefits but not working. All the job losses and hardship are being suffered by those in the private sector.
Rex Murphy is one of the very few that has even addressed this issue:
“There is a whole lot of pain out there. But there is another class, who, through no fault of their own, are not bearing the same burden. These are the people who work in government and enjoy guaranteed salaries, and whose jobs have been unaffected, or, at the very least, will be waiting for them when things fully reopen.”
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-the-full-impact-of-covid-is-not-borne-by-all