A Canadian flight crew detained in the Dominican Republic for more than 200 days is expected to be heading home soon, Global News has confirmed.
The crew of a Pivot Airlines flight was first detained in early April, after local authorities alleged drugs were found at Punta Cana International Airport. However, the Mississauga, Ont.-based airline has said the crew themselves were the ones who reported suspected drugs on board their aircraft. […]
Pivot Airlines operates from Toronto Pearson International Airport. In mid-June, the crew released a video appealing to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his help.
The freaking Dominican Republic.
Obviously the PM didn’t bother to deploy his Flaccid Power to get them deported sooner…
It does beg the question how they figured out there were drugs on the plane in the first place (and who is trying to smuggle drugs into the DR from canada anyway)
While vacationing in Cuba in 1996 I ran into a group of Torontonians smoking weed by the hotel pool. At the time I knew you could purchase it from the locals if you really wanted it. However, much to my surprise, they informed me that they had brought it with them from Canada. So they had actually boarded a commercial aircraft in Canada with an illegal substance and flown into another country with it. A country where the police were prone to “re-educating” recalcitrant citizens in the street with the barrel of a Tokerov pressed to the back of the head. And Canadians will screech on and on about dumb Americans?
Could be these pilots have p o’d a group of well-connected tourists? Maybe some of Skippy’s backers?
Simple: every pilot does a preflight inspection to make sure the plane is safe to fly. The crew found the drugs stuffed in an electronics bay that is accessed from outside the aircraft.
They immediately did the right thing by reporting the find to the local authorities, and were arrested and thrown in jail with local drug dealers. They were threatened in jail with death if they didn’t come up with a lot of cash – and the Canadian Government basically did nothing to help.
Even if they make it home, the crooks at this end who were waiting for the shipment will be after them. Bad situation all around.
I guess the DR officials (maybe Cdn too) were upset that the shipment did not make its destination.
Does Trudeau have a Villa in the DR?
The Canadian government does nothing for its citizens that are in trouble in foreign countries. One can beg on beaded knees for help from the government and they will dither and blather on about quiet diplomacy. Still one can can end murdered by practioners of the religion of peace or jailed in corrupt hell holes.
It does if they’re canadians of convenience.
One asks why anyone would go to a sh–hole in the first place, especially given that one’s government will not help when one is caught what one ought NOT to do.
Maybe we should have tossed Vladdie Guerrero of the Toronto Blue Jays into the Don jail in retaliation? He’s from DR. Maybe that would have got the DR attention….har!
First of all, when you go to a foreign country don’t expect help from your country if you feck around. Or if you don’t feck around its still tough shit.
But that’s not the same as airline people doing their job.
What a fecking embarrassment.
We’ve out bananad a banana republic.
To answer the question. A few years back some international relief workers were in some tragic African nation trying to help the locals, a praiseworthy goal. A local Islamofacist group took them hostage, one American and I think the other Irish. U.S. Navy Seals arrived, dealt decisively with the terrorists and brought the two aid workers out. I vaguely recall the Irish aid worker saying that if you were going to be kidnapped by terrorists, you should hope you are kidnapped with an American.
Who knows if this still true under Biden? It is certainly true that being the citizen of a nation that can deliver ultimate badasses wherever we want in the world on a few hours notice has advantages. Not to say Canadian Forces does not have some truly awesome people in uniform but our ability to go anywhere and destroy anything globally is real power.
L – The Post-National State of Justin Trudeau is easy pickings, so it attracts pirates here and everywhere. That airline crew is lucky that the Dominican’s didn’t just sell them into slavery
in Libya or Sudan.
Would that airline have had better/quicker results hiring SNC to negotiate their crews release?
Or would ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” donating to Biden’s fundraisers?
Or would hiring Johnny Depp to handle the negotiations produce better results?
Having your company’s Head Office in Trudeau’s dysfunctional dystopia, given his goal of a becoming a failed nation-state, it’s not the best of business plans.
I’d forgotten the context of the undoubtedly similar case but I read a long time ago that if you’re in “it” overseas, that you’re better off contacting the UK Embassy [allowed to us as subjects of the Crown] to save your bacon.
The useless Turdoo run Canadian government showing their true colours. What little they did was just pussy footing along to avoid offending the DR officials.
When I worked overseas the company told us to contact the US embassy if there was any trouble. They more or less laughed when someone asked them if they should contact the Canadian embassy.
The Turd and his lackeys didn’t lift a finger to help because they weren’t muslims or visible minorities. It really is that simple. If you get ramrodded anywhere in the world and your white, you’re on your own.
Canada just got slapped around by the DR. An example of our standing in the world.
Remember when the Somalian pirates were wreaking havoc off the African east coast? They held freighter after freighter for ransom, every nation, until the US Navy Seals showed up…
I’m sure PP was behind their return…
Can they all lose?