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Nobody should underestimate the difficulty of governing a country like Canada. Contrary to popular belief, our political leaders are not idiots — at least many of them are not. But they face competing interests that often makes inertia the path of least resistance.
In the case of Canada’s border policy during the pandemic, the federal government is under pressure to relax restrictions from businesses and returning Canadians insisting on their Charter mobility rights. A group of Snowbirds lost a case in Federal Court this week that argued being forced to stay in a quarantine hotel would cause “devastating, emotional, relational and spiritual harm,” a sentiment that will find favour with anyone who has endured an airport hotel breakfast. But no one denies their right of return.