OTTAWA—Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the quarantine system is “broken” because federal health officers are not charging people ignoring self-isolation orders for COVID-19.
Since the end of March, an emergency order under the federal Quarantine Act has required most people arriving from outside Canada to isolate themselves for 14 days, even if they don’t have symptoms. Only a fraction of border-crossers are ordered to quarantine, while the rest are exempt as essential workers, such as truck drivers, front-line health staff, or airline crew.
