Perhaps not a "similar" path, certainly not an "identical path" ... but something!
An associate of mine who lives in Tofino tells me that there was literally no parking spaces to be had in town last weekend, with pretty well every single one of those cars being non-local (out of towners are the only folks who can overflow Tofino parking), with many vehicles sporting Vancouver car dealership stickers, and more than a few license plates from the United States.
And yet Horgan won't restrict ridiculously discretionary travel to Vancouver Island at the B.C. Ferries choke points.
He could do the same thing at the Provincial borders, and at both north/south B.C. highways (at for example, 70 Mile House and Clearwater) in order to further divide B.C. into workable regions that don't allow for discretionary travel across boundaries.
That's just a single example of the B.C. government dropping the ball, despite massive will on the part of residents of Vancouver Island to enact a travel ban to the Island ... and sadly, there are many more such examples to be had ... examples of the B.C. Gov't making ridiculously poor decisions that are perpetuating the multiple waves of COVID.
Even the Maritimes aren't afraid to ruffle a few feathers over and over again ... indeed PEI RCMP would (and will again) turn you back at the Confederation Bridge if you didn't live in PEI ... and PEI and the other Maritime provinces are once again about to put another bubble in place as COVID numbers rise ... and yet B.C. continues to do absolutely nothing beyond putting restaurants, theatres and gyms out of business with poorly planned, and seemingly completely off-the-cuff rules and regulations that don't even start to focus on the real issue behind COVID transmission, which is quite obviously inter and extra Provincial travel.
Restaurants, theatres, and gyms are all 100% open in Australia because they closed borders ... something B.C. could do in a heartbeat, which would allow for Vancouver Island locals to safely patronize restaurants, theatres, and gyms ... rather than shutting down business while continuing to allow Canadians from all parts of Canada to visit Vancouver Island ... and more than a few Americans who skirt the wimpy Federal travel restrictions by arriving in Canada by air, and manipulating the system such that they can fulfil their tourist desires here in B.C. ... all in the middle of a still-raging pandemic.
As noted above, I could never again in good conscience support the B.C.NDP (despite having done so fo the past 30 years), and could certainly never support Trudeau again, a classic example of a failed leader, who, as noted above, has left Canada on its knees begging other countries for vaccines while he drives the country into a national debt that will take generations to pay off.
You get rid of COVID by sucking it up, enforcing real short-term lockdowns, and closing borders ... exactly as New Zealand and Australia have demonstrated to great success.
Edited by Spy Black, 14 April 2021 - 07:12 AM.