Mar 25, 2021
The Government of Canada announced that after March 21 they will be moving forward with a two-pronged approach to quarantine requirements for Temporary foreign workers (TFWs) based on their final destination.
Asymptomatic TFWs will be able to travel directly to their place of quarantine after getting a COVID-19 test at the airport provided they travel by private transportation and are accompanied only by others who travelled with them to Canada.
TFWs who will need to travel by public means to a secondary location upon arrival in Canada will be required to stay in a Government Authorized Accommodation (GAA) and await the results of their COVID-19 test.
TFWs with visas in agriculture, agri-food, fish and seafood sectors will continue to be exempted from a 3-nights stay in a Government Authorized Accommodation (GAA) while they await the results of their COVID-19 test results, if they are asymptomatic and are not travelling throughout Canada via public means of transportation.
The reason for this is because these sectors were identified to have a direct impact on ensuring Canada’s food supply chain and food security.
This includes the following occupations:
Primary agriculture:
- 0821 – Managers in agriculture
- 0822 – Managers in horticulture
- 8252 – Agricultural
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Mar 24, 2021
The Government of Canada announced that after March 21 they will be moving forward with a two-pronged approach to quarantine requirements for Temporary foreign workers (TFWs) based on their final destination.
Asymptomatic TFWs will be able to travel directly to their place of quarantine after getting a COVID-19 test at the airport provided they travel by private transportation and are accompanied only by others who travelled with them to Canada.
TFWs who will need to travel by public means to a secondary location upon arrival in Canada will be required to stay in a Government Authorized Accommodation (GAA) and await the results of their COVID-19 test.
TFWs with visas in agriculture, agri-food, fish and seafood sectors will continue to be exempted from a 3-nights stay in a Government Authorized Accommodation (GAA) while they await the results of their COVID-19 test results, if they are asymptomatic and are not travelling throughout Canada via public means of transportation.
The reason for this is because these sectors were identified to have a direct impact on ensuring Canada’s food supply chain and food security.
This includes the following occupations:
Primary agriculture:
- 0821 – Managers in agriculture
- 0822 – Managers in horticulture
- 8252 – Agricultural
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Feb 20, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on January 29 that all travellers entering Canada by air would have to quarantine in a hotel for three days at their own expense. This mandatory stay in a government-authorized hotel will come into effect on February 22.
The price was estimated to be more than $2000 but it seems to be less than what was estimated.
According to an article published by National Post nightly rates at the Alt Hotel Toronto Airport and the Sheraton Gateway Hotel at Toronto Pearson International Airport, two of the hotels named Friday as participants in the government quarantine program, start at $339 and $319, respectively, for a single person being quarantined, employees answering the phone at those hotels said.
“The hotels are doing the billing directly and different hotels will have different rates,” Health Minister Patty Hajdu said Friday. “The hotels are setting the price based on their own deliberations on their own expenses.”
Here is the list of government-authorized hotels:
Toronto:
- Alt Hotel Pearson Airport
- Four Points by Sheraton and Element Toronto Airport
- Holiday Inn Toronto International Airport
- Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Toronto International Airport
Montreal:
- Aloft Montreal Airport
- Crowne Plaza Montreal Airport
- Holiday Inn Express and
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