No Travel Warning For Mexico

Foreign Affairs still has not posted a travel warning for Mexico. Despite a new poll that shows Canadians want a travel warning issued. Especially those in Ontario where all of the Canadian tourists killed in Mexico have come from.

"The Canadian government issues travel advisories, which are warnings used to alert travelling Canadians to stay clear of certain countries and areas when their personal safety cannot be guaranteed.

Do you think the government should issue a travel advisory for Mexico?"

     All      Ont.

Yes 40%  51%

No 36%  33%

"The Conservative government yesterday brushed aside opposition calls for an emergency debate on the escalating violence in Mexico. "I don't think that it's necessary to have an emergency debate on this because millions of Canadians have travelled to Mexico without incident," Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Helena Guergis told the Toronto Star yesterday."

Yeah and millions of Canadians have traveled to Israel and Lebanon and live there but they are on the travel warning list. The difference is the Middle East is a war zone, while Mexico just suffers from drug wars and graft ridden police and justice bureaucracy.