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I believe the (Canadian) govt. wants to minimize the cost and hardship of an emergency evacuation in case things get hairy in any particular part of the world w
by glitchc 7y ago
I believe the (Canadian) govt. wants to minimize the cost and hardship of an emergency evacuation in case things get hairy in any particular part of the world where response to the virus is inadequate:
Case in point: The Israel-Hezbollah conflict of 2006 and subsequent evacuation of Lebanese Canadians. Some hard lessons learnt there.
https://sencanada.ca/content/sen/committee/391/fore/rep/rep12may07-e.pdf https://sencanada.ca/content/sen/committee/391/fore/rep/rep1...
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2006/07/19/canadians-begin-evacuation-from-lebanon/ https://toronto.citynews.ca/2006/07/19/canadians-begin-evacu...
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lebanon-evacuation-cost-85-million-report/article1103709/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lebanon-evacua...