Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves made his feelings known to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over Vincentians still not being eligible for visa-free travel to Canada while questionable persons from other countries are allowed to enter Canada without one.<\/p>\n
Gonsalves raised the issue during his recent trip to the Canada-CARICOM Summit.<\/p>\n
St Vincent and the Grenadines is among several Caribbean countries which require a visa to enter Canada or for some travellers, an\u00a0Electronic Travel Authorisation<\/a>\u00a0(eTA), once certain requirements are met.<\/p>\n The Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, during a media conference today, said he raised this concern with the Canadian PM, who gave him an answer he is accustomed to — that they will continue to look into the matter.<\/p>\n Gonsalves said he told Trudeau that he acknowledged that every country has a right to control its own immigration system. However, the Vincentian prime minister said he also expressed the following to the Canadian Prime Minister:<\/p>\n \u201cI find it painful to see that former Nazis or Nazis from European countries can enter Canada without a visa but the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Robert Milton Cato who was a member of Canadian armed forces… who fought the Nazis in the second world war… that we can\u2019t have a visa-free access. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n We either have to have a US visa on which we can get an electronic travel authorisation\u00a0which helps only about 10 per cent of the population (approximately) or you get your visa in the way in which I applied for mine in order to go the Summit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The prime minister says he will continue to press the issue of visa-free travel to Canada for nationals of St Vincent and the Grenadines.<\/p>\n Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves made his feelings known to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over Vincentians still not being eligible for visa-free travel to Canada while questionable persons 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