The U.S. travel ban, which blocks immigration from six countries, has a new group of unintended people being affected by the order; this time, it’s Canadian students in Toronto.
The Toronto District School Board’s director John Molloy released a statement on March 23, 2017 that expressed concern about the risks of having Toronto students go across the border who could potentially be turned away. In the statement, Molloy said:
“We do not make this decision lightly, but given the uncertainty of these new travel restrictions and when they may come into effect, if at all, we strongly believe that our students should not be placed into these situations of potentially being turned away at the border. The TDSB remains committed to ensuring that fairness, equity, and inclusion are essential principles of our school system and are integrated into all our policies, programs, operations, and practices, including school trips.”
Though the travel ban is currently being blocked by two federal judges, Sean Spicer, the president’s press secretary, has made it clear that the administration plans on appealing the decision.
The board said that the already pre-approved trips would go ahead as normal, but they weren’t making any future plans to visit the country for the time being. In addition to that, they also made it clear that if any students “with the appropriate documentation be denied entry to the U.S. for no legitimate reason, the entire trip will return to Toronto and will not proceed.”
Toronto is only about a two hour drive to the U.S. border, making trips to the country a common experience for some of the 246,000 students that the TDSB serves.
This decision by the TDSB comes after Girl Guides Canada also made the decision to cancel all trips going to the U.S., including trips that had connecting flights into the country.
Click here to read the original statement by the Toronto District School Board.
Your header is very misleading. This article is Re” TDSB ” not ALL Canadian Schools.
I guess Toronto really does consider themselves the centre of the universe *insert huge eye roll here*
Hi JStalker!
As you mentioned, we did not say “ALL” Canadian schools. The schools in Toronto are Canadian, so technically the title is correct!
I can’t comment on “Toronto really does consider themselves the centre of the universe” though 😀 lol.
Hi Ringalingading! It is not fake news, as you can see from the link to TDSB’s statement, so I’m not sure what makes you say that! Also, we did not say “ALL” Canadian schools.
@ringalingading the ban is real news. There is a link in the post to the statement from the school board and this was widely reported in the mainstream media last week. And this is definitely not the first Canadian school board to do so.
However, this is a deals blog and not a news website so you shouldn’t be calling it news at all.
Go Trump!
Well.. the title is misleading. It implies “Canadian Schools” which directs us to think that it is all Canadian schools. Proper title should be “Toronto District Schools…”
Which would make it more accurate and less misleading. By seeing the title I thought that the Toronto ban had progressed to multiple provinces where has this article only goes into the Toronto District School Board ban.
Sorry, but it is a misleading title… Misleading doesn’t mean “false” just that it’s giving the wrong idea or impression of what is going on.
/ @JStalker / @john :
CHILLAX!
This is a couponing blog for chrissakes! If you’re that keen on provoking an inane political argument with a complete stranger, go hang out at MSN, etc.
**Yeesh, some peoples’ kids**