After the family waited five years to embark on a charity-sponsored trip to Hawaii, it was postponed indefinitely due to Covid-19 restrictions in Canada.
His mother, Lia Louiser, says the suffering was quite bad. Then an Alberta government minister, Tracy Allard, confessed that she took a trip with her family to Hawaii for the Christmas holidays because it was a “family tradition.”
“It’s just a big headache that this will be our year,” Lousier said in an interview with CNN. “It simply came to our notice then. We were going to get him, hopefully, before we lost him and see that other people were, you know, outdoors, because they’d been … a year old or whatever. painful “.
Canadians who have endured a travel ban, 14-day quarantine and a few-week deadlock are angry at politicians and government workers who themselves are violating the health guidelines they have helped implement.
After telling Canadians to give up and cancel their holiday plans, more than a dozen prominent politicians, public health leaders and even a hospital CEO were caught on vacation. Confessions, demotions, resignations and a fierce, albeit uncharacteristic, cry from Canadians followed.
The social reaction was intense
In Alberta, where the number of Covid-19 cases is among the highest in the country, eight politicians have admitted to traveling abroad.
Allard was greeted at home during the Christmas holidays in Hawaii to find the “Aloha Allard” signs on buildings in the province, a petition demanding her resignation and an angry reaction on social media.
Allard apologized and resigned from his Alberta office. In a statement, she said threats had been made against her children.
“I take advantage of this learning opportunity for myself as I try to gain forgiveness and rebuild trust in my members,” she said in a statement. “And I hope people will consider their actions in response as well.”
“It really feels like an insult,” says the doctor
The consequences for her and for others are a measure of the outrage that is now occurring among Canadians, which is usually difficult to worsen, especially for exhausted health workers.
“Canadians don’t tend to get upset quickly, we’re pretty calm, you know, but I think that was a little bit of advice for us to say, OK, we did our part. What does that say about your respect for our sacrifices, “said Dr. Alan Drummond in an interview with CNN from his medical office in Perth, Ontario.
Drummond worked directly through the pandemic and only left home to treat patients. She hasn’t even traveled to see her own children for more than 10 months.
Drummond has sparked a storm on Twitter and his message is gaining the support of angry Canadians.
“For the politicians who preached to us to restrict our activities, to restrict our social gatherings, to see our elderly loved ones through iPads and glass windows, so that they then ignore the sacrifice of others for their personal pleasure, (is It’s hard to articulate how disturbing it is, “he said.” It really feels like an insult. “
Many Canadians have also been outraged by what appears to be a deliberate plan by some to hide their holiday plans.
Ontario’s finance minister, Rod Phillips, lost his job after a video message posted on Christmas Eve was pre-recorded to thank the electorate for obeying the blockade.
The heart-warming video – complete with gingerbread decor and cozy fire – aired during the holiday on the Caribbean island of St Barts.
He later returned, apologized and resigned.
“I know I have disappointed a lot of people. I hope people will appreciate that I have not disappointed anyone more than I have,” he told reporters awaiting his arrival at Toronto’s Pearson Airport.
The boy’s mother is upset, disappointed
Braeden probably won’t see Hawaiian beaches this year. Most Canadians who have seen their vacation to any destination will not be canceled either.
Louiser says doctors did not expect Braeden, who suffers from an extremely rare genetic disease, Hajdu-Cheney syndrome, to live past his childhood. She says she tries to give him “as much joy” and as many experiences as possible “because he has little time on this earth.”
It makes his anger and disappointment at the privileged and satisfying leaders all the more palpable.
“Why didn’t you stop and think you were the one standing in front of the camera saying, ‘Hey, boys, you have to stay home,'” Lousier said, adding that she and her family still hope Braeden will feel at home. soon the sand between the toes and the sensory pleasure of the rolling waves.