Rex Murphy: Taking a flight in Canada can be a puzzling experience these days, not to mention wildly frustrating. I refer, of course, as those who have flown, or tried to fly, recently know all too well, to the still-maintained mask and vaccination mandates at Canadian airports.
These mandates deny all who, for whatever reason, or set of reasons, are not vaccinated, the right and ability to fly within their own country. I see various estimates of how many they are, but the number is in the millions. That’s just a prefatory fact.
So what does going to any airport to travel within Canada look like? Obviously, you must grab your “papers.” You will also receive from one of the airlines any number of emails telling you how to “prepare” for going to the airport.
Normally, this process is so uncomplicated that most people are able to figure it out on their own. But with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s airport regime — for it is his government that has stubbornly kept these decrepit rules in place — the airlines feel they have to provide a manual for the experience. It is very annoying and twice as officious.
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