As a truck driver, Sean Gillis is one of the only Canadians who’s still allowed to cross borders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But he says he didn’t realize that would prevent him from going about his daily life. On Thursday morning, Gillis was scheduled for an appointment at a TD Bank branch on Saint John’s east side.
That didn’t happen. “They’re screening,” explains Gillis, “and they wanted to know if we’d been outside the country. “I said, ‘well, I’m a truck driver.
I go stateside but we’re exempt, we’re essential services.’ and he said ‘well, you can’t come in here.'” Gillis says he was not offered the alternative for a phone meeting or to reschedule. “He tried to get me out of the bank as quickly as possible,” he says. “Told me to
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