LIBERAL TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS ARE EVIDENCE-FREE POLITICAL THEATRE

   The Trudeau government’s aborted intention this week to ramp up travel restrictions amounts to little more than “political theatre” from a government that cannot produce data to support tightened travel rules, say multiple sources who work for premiers who participated in Tuesday’s First Ministers meeting.

    The hastily arranged 90-minute teleconference convened by Trudeau opened with federal officials telling surprised premiers that Ottawa was considering the re-introduction of a mandatory 14-day quarantine on all incoming non-essential travellers, regardless of vaccination status or nationality, and planning to impose an outright ban on all non-essential inbound foreign nationals.
   Several premiers challenged those notions, asking them to provide a scientific rationale for imposing such drastic restrictions. None was provided.