A Penticton man who went across the U.S. border to buy milk for neighbours during the shortage was slapped with a $5,700 ticket for not coming back into Canada with a negative COVID-19 PCR test.
91裸聊视频淚 went to Orville and picked up 26 gallons of milk. I had it in the back of my truck when I pulled up to the border kiosk,91裸聊视频� said Daniel Pontes.
91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檓 vaccinated, I have my vaccine passport with me. I had only been gone a couple of hours,91裸聊视频� he said.
The next thing he knows he is being told to go inside the customs91裸聊视频� office and see the nurse.
That nurse explained that he was supposed to have a COVID test three days before going into the U.S.
But this was at a time when the government had made an exception for British Columbians to cross the border to get essential food and for essential travel to the Lower Mainland. All connecting roads to the Coast had been flooded out and closed.
As with previous media reports, it didn91裸聊视频檛 seem border guards had got the memo. Numerous people join Pontes in being ticketed a large amount while crossing the border in November.
South Surrey senior Marlane Jones, for example, saw on the news that she would be allowed to cross into the U.S. to purchase gas. She did so but on her return to Canada, CBSA officers sent her to be interviewed by the Public Health Agency, which issued her a $5,700 ticket.
91裸聊视频淚t was ridiculous. They gave me a PCR test to take home with me and I had to submit the results and quarantine for two weeks.91裸聊视频�
The nurse told him he also had the option of returning to the U.S. to get a rapid test. But when Pontes, Googled where any tests were being offered in Orville, the search turned up nothing.
So Pontes went home to Penticton and took the test. Two days later the test turns up negative so that day he filed a complaint with Services BC about the ticket.
91裸聊视频淚 was hoping to fight it in court actually,91裸聊视频� he said.
Then on Dec. 13, he gets a voicemail on his phone from the government saying that the ticket has been voided.
Now he wants others who have been ticketed to know.
91裸聊视频淒on91裸聊视频檛 pay your ticket and it91裸聊视频檚 definitely worth fighting,91裸聊视频� he said.
As for the 26 gallons of milk, it did get distributed to neighbours in need.
