The SARS farse as per the Ontario Government.

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I am of the understanding that no meat or meat products are allowed to be
brought in to Canada.

As a resident of Canada you should have behaved properly. You might well
think the rules do not apply to you>

Cheers Gabe Menezes


>    The fasten seatbelt sign indicated that I had to comply as we were
landing
> at Pearson International Airport. I was apprehensive and did not know how
to
> face the impending gauntlet of customs and health clearances. The six inch
> sausage, remnant of the kilo I had brought to Paris was in my bag. But I
was
> also aware of the scare of SARS. I thought of the previous trip when I was
> made to brush my feet on a carpet to clean the bovine disease that
prevailed
> in Europe.
>
>         Nothing of this occured. No questions were asked about SARS and no
> high tech precautions taken. My temperature was not recorded and no hidden
> equiment I later understood, was installed as in Singapore.
>
>       This Government in Canada is a deceitful one mindful only of its
> economic consequences. The WHO warning was rightly announced and
> unfortunately, it has been lifted.
>
>       Treatment at hospitals in the city has been effected and a battery
of
> nurses all in masks are deployed at entrances like the marines guarding
the
> wealth of SARS within, just as the Marines are guarding captured Sadaam
> cronies in high security areas. Entrance is denied except in dire
> circumstances.
>
>      Edgar Martins
>