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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/covid-19-tree-planter-jacob-delaquis-quisipamsis-b-c-1.5555081
Quispamsis student braves COVID-19 in cross-Canada trek to tree planting job in B.C.
Jacob Delaquis, 21, surprised to find only 2 border 'check-ups'
CBC News · Posted: May 05, 2020 6:00 AM AT
Jacob Delaquis, 21, just before he left his mother's house in Quispamsis on April 29, is due to arrive in Smithers, B.C., Tuesday. (Submitted by Jacob Delaquis)
Driving across the country is a rite of passage for many New Brunswick university students, but it's not an option for most this summer with COVID-19 restrictions limiting travel between provinces.
Jacob Delaquis, 21, of Quispamsis, however, has a tree planting job waiting for him in 100 Mile House, B.C.
So he packed up his car last week with food, disinfectant wipes, gloves and masks, and set out on the more than 5,000-kilometre journey.
"I am taking every precaution necessary to ensure that I don't show up to camp sick," he said.
That includes making the fewest stops possible and avoiding busy urban centres.
Delaquis said he was surprised he's come across only two border "check-ups" — when crossing from New Brunswick into Quebec and from Ontario into Manitoba.
"You would figure that the two, you know, most infected provinces, Ontario and Quebec, there would be some sort of you know border check-up, but no, I went through Ontario with no check-ups or nothing, which I found very odd," he told Information Morning Saint John during a telephone interview Monday.
"Actually I'm a little shocked by that."
Although Delaquis described the New Brunswick-Quebec border as the strictest, officials did not make use of the testing station, he said.
They just asked him several questions, checked his contract and company letter, which states he is an essential worker and authorized to travel across borders, he said.
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs has said he has no plans to loosen restrictions at border crossings like this one at the Quebec border into Campbellton. (Serge Bouchard/Radio-Canada)
Delaquis, a political science student at the University of Montreal, originally had a summer job lined up to be a parliamentary guide in Ottawa.
"But unfortunately, you know, that job got cancelled [due to COVID-19] because you need some foreign tourists and you need people to come and visit."
He had planted trees in New Brunswick last summer, so he considered doing that again, but he said the pay in B.C. is more than double.
"In New Brunswick, to give you an idea, I would be getting paid six cents a tree. I know that doesn't sound [like] a lot, but on average you plant about 2,500 a day. So if you do the math, it rounds up to a nice little pay.
"However in B.C., it's 14 cents a tree. … So I could make, you know, twice the amount of money I made last year."
Avoids restaurants, pays at pump
Delaquis said he loaded up his car with plenty of food for the drive — sandwiches his mother made, veggie trays, granola bars, chips and other snacks — so he could avoid restaurants as much as possible, and he restocked Sunday in Winnipeg, where his grandmother dropped off muffins, apples and bananas."So in terms of food, I really have only been stopping at Tim Hortons to pick up a coffee," which he wipes down with disinfectant wipes, he said.
When he stops for gas, he always wears gloves and a mask and usually just pays at the pump so he doesn't even have to go in.
"I really am spending the majority of my time on the highway."
And before he stops for the night, he calls ahead to hotels and motels to ask about their cleaning policies.
"You know, they all say they're doing extensive cleaning stuff, but for me, personally, I always wear gloves and a mask."
Keeping daily log
In addition, Delaquis has to fill out a daily log for the forestry company, including where he has travelled, his temperature and any symptoms."It's a vigorous process. And it's very regulated," he said.
Another precaution the company is taking is separating the crews of 18 into carloads of four or five and keeping them isolated for the first two weeks, said Delaquis, who will be one of the drivers.
"I'll be only interacting with the people in my [truck] … and then while I'm driving everybody's going to be wearing masks and gloves, so it's going to be very weird," he said.
"They're doing that to ensure that, you know, all the tree planters are healthy. And, you know. if somebody does get sick, it's not like we're in one big camp and it'll infect everybody."
It's not for everybody, that's for sure.- Jacob Delaquis
Delaquis, who was about 180 kilometres east of Edmonton on Monday morning, was aiming to make it to Smithers by Tuesday to pick up a company truck.
He said he's looking forward to the season and prepared for the physical demands of the job by doing virtual yoga classes since gyms are closed due to COVID-19.
"After a long day, like you're doing the same motion constantly and it's not just like one body part it's … your entire body that is aching," he said.
"It's not for everybody, that's for sure," said Delaquis, describing it as "grueling work."
But it's more of a mental challenge than a physical challenge, he said.
"You have to have the right mindset, the right attitude, you know, to go in there and work. I mean, I'll be living in a tent for the next three months, essentially. But I'm content with that."
With files from Information Morning Saint John
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David Amos
Methinks the RCMP running amuck in Higgy's Police State would be wise not to harass me any further as I return to the emergency room for more tests under my Doctor's' orders N'esy Pas?
David Amos
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Methinks Higgy et al must be curious if I saved all the comments before they went ""Poof" N'esy Pas?
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David Amos
Methinks some folks must have heard this political science student at the University of Montreal talking on Information Morning in Fat Fred City today N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks Higgy et al know why Jacob Delaquis quite likely did not vote for me in the last election N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Tom Bambadil: Ask Higgy
BruceJack Speculator
would that be the same reason 7000 or more others did not vote for U
Harvey York
Reply to @BruceJack Speculator: hahahahaha...awesome
David Amos
Reply to @Harvey York: So you say
David Amos
Reply to @BruceJack Speculator: Say Hey to Higgy and your buddy Tom Bambadil for me will Ya?
Harvey York
Reply to @David Amos: actually, yes I did say. You can't fool the fine folks of Fundy Royal, or the rest of New Brunswick for that matter, N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Harvey
York: Methinks you should ask yourself who is fooling who Higgy and your
buddy Tom Bambadil or the RCMP in Fundy Royal who have had the wiretap
tapes since 2004 N'esy Pas?
Ray Oliver
Reply to @David Amos: The only votes you got must've been the fellas in your wing of the N u t House N'esy Pas? The same crowd that believes cows get killed by laser beams
Harvey York
Reply to @David Amos: Oh well that changes everything! If the people had of known about those darn wiretaps and spent more time reading your conspiracy theory blogs and followed along intently to all of your failed lawsuits, then maybe, just maybe, the 7000 or so folks who didn't vote for you might have been reduced to a mere 6095 or so.
P.S. - I don't know any Tom Bambadil
P.P.S. - please don't sue me
David Amos
Reply to @Ray Oliver: Methinks everybody can that you are back with different ID N'esy Pas the former Mr Jones etc etc etc ?
Harvey York
Reply to @Ray Oliver: Go easy now Ray, there's a high probability he'll try to sue you now
Ray Oliver
Reply to @Harvey
York: He has. Old news. He thinks I'm some lawyer guy he did try to sue.
And a cop. And Higgys buddy. And now that you throw him a little shot I
jump in on just wait we will be best buddies working against him too.
Same old game with this w h a c k o
Ray Oliver
Reply to @Harvey York: Sorry he's threatened to sue. It's all achieved in his clearly legible blog he refers too
Harvey York
Reply to @Ray Oliver:
Not here to work against anybody, I like to read constructive debates
and opinions...not the "off your rocker" stuff that he continually
regurgitates. After a while though it's like driving past a car
wreck...you don't want to look but you can't help yourself
Ray Oliver
Reply to @Harvey York: Couldnt have said it better lol
David Amos
Reply to @Harvey York: Methinks the RCMP et al now know that you are way past too late N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Harvey York: "P.S. - I don't know any Tom Bambadil"
Methinks the RCMP and everybody else in the know knows your buddy pretending to be a RCMP dude by the name of Ray Oliver was Tom Bambadil earlier within this thread and many others N'esy Pas?
Ray Oliver
Reply to @David Amos: Too funny. The edibles are hitting hard today it seems. You think I run multiple accounts when this one works just fine for what I want it for. Lol
David Amos
Reply to @Ray Oliver: Methinks the RCMP is well aware that desperate people do make desperate claims N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Ray Oliver: BTW Your Methinks Higgy's RCMP buddies should at least be decent enough to verify that I don't do dope or drink beer be it legal or not N'esy Pas?
Ray Oliver
Reply to @David Amos: I'd at least claim I did if I were you maybe as an excuse for the gibberish that spews daily. Think about it.
David Amos
Reply to @Ray Oliver: There is no need to try to change the simple truth.
David Amos
Methinks Higgy et al cannot deny that they know that the Public Record
of my concerns about the actions of the RCMP against me goes back to1982
which was long before he was a wannabe CoR Party Leader or the lawyer
McKenna dreamed that he would become a Premier N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Ray Oliver: Further Mr Pretend Constable how to you explain my having so many wiretap tapes of the mob that your RCMP buddies have refused to investigate since 2004 particularly after 3 Justices of the Federal Court of Appeal admitted I filed one in the public record of their docket years ago and then discussed it with me on the RECORD while 2 members of the RCMP sat in the peanut gallery behind me and three of friends bore witness to it all two of whom later ran for public office against Higgy et al?
Ray Oliver
Reply to @David Amos: Pretend Constable. I like it. Sarcasm is a concept that's above your room temperature IQ isnt it
David Amos
Reply to @Ray Oliver:
Methinks the RCMP are not laughing at your malicious nonsense because
its against the law to pretend to be a cop N'esy Pas?
Ray Oliver
Reply to @David Amos: You Google everyones name on here that challenges you. World class detective work David keep it up the RCMP may hire you yet.
Ray Oliver
Reply to @David Amos:
Your buddies in the RCMP are smart enough to know I know nothing of any
Ray Oliver a cop and if you dig hard enough on Google you'll discover
why i run with it as a handle.. dork
David Amos
Reply to @Ray Oliver:
Methinks there is no need for you to Google anything My Tweets are
making you and your buddy Higgy rather infamous N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Ray Oliver: Methinks the RCMP already know who you really are N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Ray Oliver: FYI Its Mr Amos to you BTW the RCMP did hire me to investigate things back in the early 80s.
David Amos
Reply to @Harvey
York: "If the people had of known about those darn wiretaps and spent
more time reading your conspiracy theory blogs"
Methinks I would rather know what YOU thought of the wiretap tapes N'esy Pas?
Methinks I would rather know what YOU thought of the wiretap tapes N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks Higgy et al and everybody else knows that Harvey is a town in York County N'esy Pas?
Ray Oliver
Reply to @David Amos: Niiiice catch Sherlock.
David Amos
Reply to @Ray Oliver:
Methinks the Minister of Public Safety Carl Urquhart and his cop
cohorts figured out it is in his riding after Dominic Cardy quit sharing
the butter tarts with them N'esy Pas?
David Amos
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Reply to @Ray Oliver:
More importantly I truly believe that you "Cst Oliver" and your buddy
"Sgt York" are just two more corrupt cops harassing me for the benefit
of Higgy et al and your beloved Police State
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: BINGO
David Amos
Reply to @Ray Oliver: "If you dig hard enough on Google you'll discover why i run with it as a handle.. dork "
Methinks the Crown should check the rules of this forum that the taxpayers are funding N'esy Pas?
BruceJack Speculator
Hard to believe all the negative attitudes towards a young person making an effort to take care of himself. Some people seem to believe being negative in a warped way makes them seem important.
David Amos
Reply to @BruceJack
Speculator: Methinks you should review your own words against me It
should be a small wonder to Higgy et al that you don't use a real name
N'esy Pas?
SarahRose Werner
"the pay in B.C. is more than double" - This is why we can't get people to work on farms and fish processing plants in New Brunswick. The people who could do the work get paid more to plant trees in BC.
David Amos
Reply to @SarahRose
Werner: Methinks you hero Higgy knows that Its not rocket science to
understand why many of our young folks have gone west since the great
depression before WW2 N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Tom Bambadil: Yea Right
Johnny Almar
Reply to @SarahRose Werner: Well JD Irving can't bring in foreigners so now they have to up the pay to compete.
Right! Who am I kidding? In my mind, they will probably get the government to submit to their requests soon enough. Will they play the "If we don't get our way we will close a mill" card?
Right! Who am I kidding? In my mind, they will probably get the government to submit to their requests soon enough. Will they play the "If we don't get our way we will close a mill" card?
Michael G. L. Geraldson
It's tough and grueling work, but it sounds like he has the right mindset for it and he knows what he's getting into, having done it before. Be safe, stay healthy and have a great summer.
David Amos
Reply to @Tom Bambadil: Methinks you must work for the Irving Clan N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Tom Bambadil: Why is it that I am not laughing?
David Amos
Reply to @Tom Bambadil: No its because you are the same little evil dude who has been harassing me with a brand new ID
David Amos
Reply to @Tom Bambadil Methinks everybody should wonder why you went "Poof" so fast N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks it was kinda obvious why I was not surprised N'esy Pas?
Tom Bombadil is a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He first appeared in print in a 1934 poem called The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, which also included the Lord of the Rings characters ..
Tom Bombadil is a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He first appeared in print in a 1934 poem called The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, which also included the Lord of the Rings characters ..
Billy Joe Mcallister
My nephew has done this for years and did it again this year. It's very much a non news story
Michael G. L. Geraldson
Reply to @Billy Joe Mcallister:
The "news" part about it that he's doing it in the middle of a pandemic with widespread restrictions across the country which he's trying to adapt to. Hopefully your nephew is doing the same.
The "news" part about it that he's doing it in the middle of a pandemic with widespread restrictions across the country which he's trying to adapt to. Hopefully your nephew is doing the same.
Billy Joe Mcallister
Reply to @Michael G.
L. Geraldson: He's been there for a while now....weeks. He is very
self sufficient and has travelled to many places in the world> I am
quite confident that he would do whatever was necessary to make the
journey
David Amos
Reply to @Billy Joe Mcallister: " It's very much a non news story"
Oh So True
Oh So True
Gerry Ferguson
Makes it sound like it's supposed to be dangerous to drive by yourself in a car. I don't get it. This histeria is nuts.
Tom Campbell
Reply to @Gerry
Ferguson: He's not going to deive to BC without getting out of his car
for a variety of reasons. Fuel, food, accomodations, bathroom. Over 4000
miles, just think for a moment in the middle of a pandemic. Think about
if you are able to.
Michael G. L. Geraldson
Reply to @Gerry Ferguson:
Maybe you should ask some of the families of the hundreds of thousands worldwide who have lost loved ones if a certain amount of "hysteria" is justified or not.
Maybe you should ask some of the families of the hundreds of thousands worldwide who have lost loved ones if a certain amount of "hysteria" is justified or not.
James Smith
Reply to @Michael G.
L. Geraldson: People die everyday, in Africa, Syria, and all over the
world for non-pandemic related causes. You only pretend to care because
this time it's Caucasian Canadians, some of whom you might be distantly
related to. Welcome to 50% of the world's reality, who live on $3/day,
with no infrastructure, clean water, septic, or health care access.
Covid is the great equalizer.
Michael G. L. Geraldson
Reply to @James Smith:
You don't know me and shouldn't judge me. Just for the record, I care because this week I lost my best friend, and last week I lost my brother. Maybe if it hits closer to home you'll care a bit more too, although I don't wish that on you or anybody else.
You don't know me and shouldn't judge me. Just for the record, I care because this week I lost my best friend, and last week I lost my brother. Maybe if it hits closer to home you'll care a bit more too, although I don't wish that on you or anybody else.
David Amos
Reply to @Gerry Ferguson: BINGO
Beverley Kernan
Reply to @Michael G. L. Geraldson:
I am very sorry for your sad losses.
I am very sorry for your sad losses.
Norman Hall
Good luck, Jacob. I followed much the same path when I was 21 years old, only without a car or a job waiting. My father told me to go to a sawmill and tell them I was from the Maritimes. I did just that and had a job the same day l arrived in BC, also at three times the pay that I was making in NB. There is no bad time for an adventure if you do it responsibly, as this young man is doing.
David Amos
Reply to @Norman
Hall: My Uncle Raymond did the Hobo thing and rode the trains out west
during the depression before the war to help harvest wheat He saved his
money but on the way back the other Hobos rolled him and even took his
coat so he landed back home in the Maritimes with less than he left with
in he first place.
Marguerite Deschamps
Truckers as essential
workers are on the road most of the time. This young man is travelling
once to go and once to get back and he's going to be confined in the
woods. So what's the big deal. Who says the youths of today are afraid
of hard work? Go west young man! And all the best!
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Methinks you should have went with the young wannabe
political scientist You could have educated him about the SANB on the
way N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David Amos: He's attending l'Université de Montréal. I'm sure we could converse en français.
David Amos
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks much to Higgy's chagrin its taught in political science 101 who to approach in order to be lined up to be a parliamentary guide in Ottawa N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David Amos: Hard to deny the patronage David. It's part of human nature.
Jim Calvert
Did something similar in 1977, but I had a 1962 Buick Le Sabre so I could sleep across the back seat. Good to see the generation coming up is not afraid of a little adventure. Stay Safe.
David Amos
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David Amos: He's attending l'Université de Montréal. I'm sure we could converse en français.
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Methinks yiou SANB dudes should understand why I suggested it
it More importantly the wannabe political scientist lives in Higgy's
riding and I doubt he voted for Higgy either N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks much to Higgy's chagrin its taught in political science 101 who to approach in order to be lined up to be a parliamentary guide in Ottawa N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David Amos: Hard to deny the patronage David. It's part of human nature.
Jim Calvert
Did something similar in 1977, but I had a 1962 Buick Le Sabre so I could sleep across the back seat. Good to see the generation coming up is not afraid of a little adventure. Stay Safe.
David Amos
Reply to @Jim
Calvert: I owned two 1962 Buicks in my life they were both Invicta
models One was owned by Colin B MacKay the former boss of UNB
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