Via The Toronto Star:
“First, they had unbelievable luck. Amid cancelled international flights and chaos in the streets, about 200 Canadian passengers made it past the desperate hordes at Cairo airport to board a Canadian-chartered flight out.
Then, the shakedown. Egyptian airport officials demanded cash — $2,000 from passengers, which they quickly collected on board — before the plane would be allowed to take off. That was on top of the “roughly $400” the Conservative government intends to charge them for passage to the “safe haven” cities of London, Paris or Frankfurt.
Canadian evacuees will then have to pay their way home from those locations, but the government promises to help with the bookings. It’s the first time ever in a rescue effort the government is charging to recover costs for evacuation flights.
In Ottawa, the government denied its Egyptian rescue effort was in disarray even as the Canadians were hit up for extravagant “departure” fees, could not reach embassy personnel by phone, and said Ottawa’s emergency voice mailbox was full. When word reached Ottawa about the runway cash demands, Canadian officials made an angry call to Egypt’s ambassador.
Canadian officials raised “concerns . . . about additional fees charged to release the plane” — fees the government was told were charged “for luggage” handling, said Melissa Lantsman, communications director for Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon.”
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First off, why wasn’t someone from the Canadian embassy there to make sure the evacuation of its citizen went smoothly??! Smdh! Yet more proof that Canada does not know how to look after its own citizens. Just ask Maher Arar, Suaad Hagi Mohamud, Abousfian Abdelrazik and Omar Khadr. Hmm… what do all of those people seem to have in common??
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