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This is a warning to Canadian dual citizens entering Canada with Air China. I just heard of this case where a Canadian entering China from Beijing International Airport was denied boarding their flight to Vancouver. IT IS A SYSTEMIC MISTAKE. Should dual citizens enter Canada on their second passport, Air China asks for an eTA (Electronic Travel Document). The mistake is that you are not a foreign national, but instead are Canadian and cannot legally get an eTA (as per security air travel regulations for Canada, 2016). Showing proof of Canadian citizenship is ignored, and even a Special Authorization from the Canadian Embassy in Beijing is ignored. This person was stranded in Beijing for 2 days.

Air China check-in procedures require that an eTA be shown. The flag raised in the airline system by the Canadian Embassy indicating the person is clear to enter Canada is not considered. Air China staff continue to ask for an eTA.

The matter is not entirely clear however, given that Air China staff initially offered to replace the ticket after the scheduled flight had departed (while the person and check-in staff argued through the brief layover of 2 hours), and then changed their mind and told the person they had to pay for a new ticket.

Ultimately, when the person contacted a lawyer Air China check-in staff immediately issued a new boarding pass for a flight to Vancouver.

This does not apply to Canada/US dual citizens, who are automatically cleared for entry to Canada.

I see a lot of posts about sad stories. What are your thoughts about this advice. Times change, people change, values change. This idea is from teachings that say if a person is not appreciated where they are, they have the option of leaving.

Re: Government systemic corruption and targeting of innocent Canadians

I’m helping someone who wrote this. He won’t use Facebook. It hasn’t been reliable. For anyone in pre-law or with a vision of fair govenrment, what would you change in this letter destined for the Office of the Prime Minister (of Canada). What comments do you have regarding its purpose?

I don’t know how else to describe the indifference of Canada’s family services programs, and the condoning of their abusive operation by their authorities. 

I contact your office today as I stand at the foot of a mountainous level of bureaucratic indifference and administrative violence that once again threatens my ability to function in life. And for no valid reason. I was recently denied boarding a flight to Canada and was stranded in a foreign airport for 2 days as an outcome of this problem. Part of this plea is the targeting of me in a case of Force Majeure that prompted the advice of private law enforcement that I leave Canada for my well being. This problem continues to be ignored and goes unacknowledged. 

The combination of this ignoring, the targeting itself, and the apathy of Canada’s bureaucratic programs has once again raised the question ‘Is it worth continuing while buried and abused?’

Go back to circa 2008 when Alberta’s FMEP gave bad instructions about stopping the accumulation of arrears. A few years later the arrears reached approximately $5,000 to my surprise. As of circa 2022, the arrears were incorrectly tabulated to approximately $120,000. Through all these years I did not work in my professional field, and did not earn the income I did while making my last support payments (circa 2000). This flaw was the cause of suspensions of my drivers license and my Canadian passport—to pay arrears (that were incorrectly) tabulated.

The program’s design of indifference let time pass such that the information sought by it to clear the arrears was no longer in existence. The 10 year rule of foreign countries for documents from employers and banks says the information need not be kept. Should there have been any official documents pertaining to income while abroad they were destroyed. My attempts with legal counsel to prepare a defense to clear the arrears are useless because these documents sought by the courts don’t exist. And now I face being stranded in countries because my Canadian passport is suspended, raising the difficulties of using a dual citizenship passport due to air travel system limitations.  

This is the latest of what is described as beurocratic violence against me; citing how i was suddenly left in China without a proper visa because the Canadian Embassy asked me to relinquish my Canadian passport I travelled with (as per FMEP enforcement), how my driver’s license was suspended and unilaterally reinstated—yet now BCFMA is generating fictitious procedures and making mistakes regarding the reinstatement of my passport when they can release its hold on their own, and how the ineffective operation of these programs arrive at a point that asks for proof that doesn’t exist. All of this is compounded by problems caused by the unacknowledged case of Force Majeure, which at their worst saw me in SOS circumstances that were ignored by next of kin when the Embassy of my second citizenship country sought them out.

Should these acts of incompetence and abuse toward me have been caused by the case of Force Majeure, Canadian authorities have a moral right to acknowledge that. The alternative that has been happening is manipulative totalitarianism and undemocratically abusive. I have been treated with prejudice in my entry to countries and have been shunned from living in buildings and cities by this targeting that goes unacknowledged. This includes Canada. I have not been able to function in life. My family chose to not inform me of the marriage of a close niece, forcing me to miss out on the reunion and her special day. Force Majeure: they’re afraid of what may happen because I’m included.  

Rising above the pettiness of this beaurocracy, regardless of who is at fault for how this problem snowballed for so many years without question, the facts are that my income tax filings show my financial status, there never has been money available to put toward payments, the period of the case ended circa 2011, and my standard of living is commensurate with receiving financial assistance. Most importantly, the recipient, my Son, was not in financial distress at the termination of the case (~2011). That said, payment toward arrears is voluntary. Today he lives in a top 3 city in Canada, owns his own business, and takes golfing holidays across Canada. He’s doing fine.

To dote on procedural steps so many years later that were undermined by problems at the time is failing to see the forest for the trees. From my perspective, this includes the fact that the entire support payments issue started because my spouse conveniently quit our union of marriage. ‘The marriage is over because she (the wife) has nothing to say’ was the reported reason for the end of the marriage by the MD Counsellor. For not fault of my own, this playing the system caused one tragedy that begot the next of beauracoractic strangulation by family services. I repeat, of no fault of my own. Shame on the architects behind these programs and the authorities who condone them without a chance for a fair voice by those abused by them. 

To not release me from this program’s attitude that does not apply, and that is draconian, is immoral and irresponsibly abusive, knowing the circumstances and of the problems targeting me. This includes being without the chartered-of-rights liberty of access to services by Ombudsman offices. Your records will show I have been forced to contact the Prime Minister’s Office on numerous occasions to defend myself from abuse and targeting. (The dates mentioned here are best estimates.)

Should this letter include a comment about how my attempt to claim disability is now a nightmare? Having been forced to search a life of freedom out of the country, I have little in medical history in Canada. The health issues I’ve suffered over the years don’t show up, meaning it will take a year or two to build a history by way of treatments and their attempts and results. I suffered a massive seizure and was hospitalized, and as time progressed, complications of it and other health issues have become more pronounced. The problem that’s part of this is how my recent work injury in Canada was not investigated properly to create some medical history. No people from the workplace were spoken to and the workplace wasn’t even visited. WorkSafeBC. It raises a fear that the process to show disability won’t be handled properly. Force Majeure or bureaucratic laziness? Thoughts?