（2009年5月4日下午）

是哥哥打电话来告诉我这一消息的，他非常着急。。我赶紧看电视，果然在加拿大国家电视台的头条新闻里看到人在长春的大侄女法妮了！戴着口罩，正同其他同学坐在汽车里去隔离他们的招待所(并不是报道所说的那样是个酒店,而是政府部门某个不对外的招待所)，是中国方面拍摄的电视新闻摘录，看来法妮是同行老外中唯一汉语讲得好的一个。。。。想不到竟让她遇上这一突发事件，真是不可思议！其实29人中无一人有发烧等可疑迹象。在隔离加拿大学生之前，中国曾隔离了一批墨西哥旅客，结果引起纷纷扰扰的外交纠葛
（资料：中国隔离墨西哥人，两国关系出现裂痕：http://news.wenxuecity.com/messages/200905/news-gb2312-845532.html），这批学生在长春被隔离，也使人产生联想。

不管怎样，这次的经历一定会给他们中国学汉语之行打上很深的烙印，政治、外交手段，这些如此复杂敏感的内容，看来十分远离日常生活的话题，现在都被先体会了，先感受了，对今后的学业（法妮读外交事务专业）和观察社会的角度都是有帮助的。


法妮，希望你一切平安，顺利完成此行任务，努力提高汉语水平！

刚出长春机场的那天。法妮（右一）情绪还挺好。图片来自CBC电视台主页。

在去旅馆的车里

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新闻报道：


29位蒙特利尔大学生在长春被隔离

据加拿大电视台5月4日（CTV）报道，蒙特利尔大学（Universite de Montreal）传讯主任朗格卢瓦（Sophie Langlois）向该台证实，蒙特利尔大学东南亚研究中心的29名学生已经被检疫隔离。
朗格卢瓦说，据负责领队的教授表示，他们现在被隔离在中国东北长春市的一间酒店里。
据悉，这些加拿大学生是到中国学习汉语的。他们乘飞机从北京到长春，在机场，当地的卫生官员将他们带到一个房间进行体温测试。
不过，据加拿大电视台的报道，虽然这批学生没有一人出现发烧症状，也没有任何生病迹象，但他们仍然被告知需要进行7天的检疫隔离。
报道说，这些加拿大人被隔离在这座风景如画城市的一间酒店内，而他们酒店里的唯一一批客人。他们每天需要接受3-4次体温检查。
有关方面为他们提供膳食，但告诉他们在未来5天内不得离开酒店。
朗格卢瓦说，据学生和教授表示，他们得到了很好的接待。他们可以上网和收发电子邮件，并已经与家人联络和报平安。

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加拿大外交部长坎农（Lawrence Cannon）已要求加拿大领事官员了解加拿大人因甲型流感事件在中国被隔离的原因。
由于防堵甲型（H1N1）流感病毒的蔓延，中国大陆及香港有关当局，分别将两批加拿大旅客在酒店内进行检疫隔离。
据报道，加拿大外交部发言人卡克乔恩（Alain Cacchione）今天（5月4日）向加通社证实，除了在中国东北城市长春，有29名来自蒙特利尔的大学生及教授在酒店内被隔离外，另有一批数量未详的加拿大旅客也被困在香港一家酒店内。
加拿大的外交人员正在向中国官方了解这两批加拿大人目前的情况。
“当地地方官员一直向领事官员保证，所有的客人正在得到很好的照顾，并获得包括食品和通讯的设施，”卡克乔恩在渥太华说，“到目前为止，我们没有任何迹象显示他们当中任何人表现出类似流感的症状。”

自由党抨击保守党政府态度

但是，在渥太华，加拿大自由党外交事务评论员李博（Bob Rae）批评加拿大政府在处理中国决定隔离加拿大公民事件上的态度。
“在中国政府方面，看来并没有任何正当理由，也没有任何公共健康方面的原因。 ”李博说。
加拿大外交部长坎农说，他已要求领事官员探访目前被隔离在中国的加拿大人，以确保他们受到良好的对待。
坎农说：“我已经要求他们采取措施和办法，向中国政府了解清楚有关情况。”


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Canadians quarantined in China over H1N1 worries

Updated Mon. May. 4 2009 5:54 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Two groups of Canadians in China are being held in quarantine in hotel rooms as a precaution against the H1N1 flu, Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed Monday.

One group consists of tourists, who are being placed under "preventative medical surveillance" at the Metro Park Hotel in the Wanchia district of Hong Kong.

Foreign Affairs spokesperson Alain Cacchione told The Canadian Press that, according to Chinese authorities, it was confirmed one of the guests tested positive for the H1N1 influenza virus.

"Consular officials have been assured by local authorities that all guests are being well cared for and have access to amenities including food and communications," Cacchione said from Ottawa.

"We have no indication at this time that any of them are showing flu-like symptoms."

Meanwhile, Sophie Langlois, director of media relations for the Universite de Montreal, confirmed to CTV.ca that students with the university's Centre for Studies in East Asia have also been quarantined.

Langlois said the professor leading the students on the trip said they are being held at a hotel in the northern city of Changchun.

The students are in China to study Mandarin and are taking part in a language exchange program.

On Saturday, they had flown from Beijing to Changchun, where they were met by health officials at the airport and taken to a room to have their temperatures taken.

Peter Kent, the minister responsible for overseas consular services, confirmed Monday that 22 students out of a class of 28 are currently in quarantine.

"They were originally quarantined in a university dorm, but after complaints, Chinese authorities moved them to a hotel," Kent told CTV's Power Play on Monday.

Kent noted that the students say they have been treated well and are free to move around the hotel.

"That said, we have asked Chinese authorities for an explanation of why this happened here," he said. "They passed through Beijing with no complications."

While no one in the group has a fever or is showing signs of illness, they were told they would have to be quarantined for seven days.

The group must have medical examinations in which their temperatures are taken, four times a day.

China has not reported any cases of H1N1 flu. The only person in east Asia to have been diagnosed with the virus is a Mexican traveller who was identified last week in Hong Kong.

Dr. Keiji Fukuda, acting assistant director-general of for Health Security and Environment at the World Health Organization, was asked about such quarantines at Monday morning's daily news conference.

"I don't want to comment on the disease control actions of specific countries," Fukuda said.

"I do want to point out that quarantine, in certain situations, can be a quite reasonable action to take in specific situations. There are times when it would be reasonable and other times when it would not.

"But as we've mentioned over and over again, situations differ and countries' approaches to disease control measures are choices. There is no set recipe for how you approach disease control."

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CC

Why are they only doing this to these students? Were they in Mexico prior to this? Are they isolating other tourists etc from countries that have suspected H1N1 virus? There has to be more to this story, the students aren't sick yet they are being isolated - odd!

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Dave

So we have a media that is intent on overdramatizing this flu combined with a nation that thinks diplomacy is a closed cell. Hey this this is going well...don't you think?

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DANIEL H

Now is China doing this just to disprove prejudice against Mexicans or are they just in general in a panic? It’s interesting that a country that is the source of many flu viruses is concerned about what comes from other countries.

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Bob A

Can you say: "Over Reaction"....

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Treat others how you want to be treated

Watch and see if Canada sends a charted plane to go pick them up.... of course not. I will be greatly surprised if they do. Perhaps with the next outbreak of the bird flu we should show the same courtesy that they have shown, lock them up too. No if's and or buts about it!! See their reaction!! I get it if they are sick but even then they are human and deserve to treated accordingly. Do they lock their people up when there is an outbreak of H5N1 Bird Flu which is far deadlier than this H1N1 flu going around now... not!!!

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AndyL

Having travelled to China, the place is a cesspool. Tourist should be happy to be quarantined and protected from the Chinesse environment.

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Jan

I am with those that think this goes deeper than concern about the flu virus. I wonder how closely they are being monitored and I don't just mean medically. Is the Canadian embassy involved to make sure they are not being denied basic freedoms? What right do they have to seclude perfectly healthy people? It is ridiculous.

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Get a grip there China!

I dont remember quarantining the Chinese in Canada when sars was around.

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Katie

So China has banned pork from Canada and quarantined some of our visiting Candian students. All this from the country that poisoned their own babies with melamine and put all kinds of crap into products shipped over here.

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Anne

I may have raised my eyebrows, except that we're talking about China.

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dolly the sheep

Yes I think they are right to do so .China has the largest population . just think about what would happen if it went wild over there.

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Jenn in Ottawa

I'm not surprised. If they're banning pork imports and all travel to our country, then we should assume they don't want people from our country traveling into theirs. Dido for the quarantine of Mexicans in China. China does not want their own people traveling to Mexico. It should be clear that they wouldn't want Mexicans traveling into their country. Obviously there's a lot of fear out there. There's also a lot of skeptics. Nobody is RIGHT in this type of situation. There will always be over reactors and under reactors. But even those definitions are relative and our opinions of various reactions are bound to change as time goes by and we learn more about this virus.

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Mark -Vegreville, AB

I guess they would spend their time surfing the net and catching up on news back home except most news sites are blocked in China. This isn't just a China over reaction. People all over the world and the governments have gone off the deep end over this scare. As the saying goes "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions".

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Maurice

China has had problems with bird flu and the concern is what if the current swine flu h1n1 mutates once it meet with the bird flu. WHO still says we should be cautious and not let our guard down yet. China cannot afford an outbreak, they have to take extra precautions because they don't have the resources to manage another strain of flu virus spreading throughout China. Here in canada in less then 24 hours its the cases of the flu virus doubled. As the cases increase the higher the chances of this strain turning into something worse.

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Kat - Ottawa, currently in China

China has the right to protect it's people however they see fit. I think Canada should have been quicker with posting the travel advisories. As a Mexican/Canadian currently spending a year in China i feel rather safe knowing that measures are being taken no matter how excessive they might seem. Also had Canada placed some quarantines, maybe the Alberta pig farmers wouldn't be having the problems they are getting now...

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Jackie Barrett

I think Canada must send a strong message to the Chinese and stop targeting Canadian pork and citizens for no legitimate reason. First step is to impose trade sanctions and embargoes against China for over-reacting and targeting Canadians though they test negative for H1N1. China, food for thought, did we quarantine Chinese citizens during the SARS epidemic which originated in China? No we didn't. Therefore, during the Swine Influenza epidemic, you have to right to quarantine Canadian citizens. Stop over-reacting China. We treated your citizens fairly during the SARS Epidemic, now its your turn to treat Canadian citizens in your country fairly. Remember, what goes around, comes around.

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Greg from AT

I think they are doing 100% right. Look at what these narrow mind people are talking about. These students are only quarantined for 7 days and not forever. Langlois says the students and their professor are being treated well, have Internet and email access and are being provided with meals. Are you talking about right? freedome? lol. Do you fly to Mexica right now? -------------------------------------------------------

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RE: BONJOUR FANNY!‏

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Sent:	May 5, 2009 1:51:43 AM
To:	simei88@hotmail.com

 

 

salut niang niang !! oui on va tous bien, mais c'ets plate etre en quarantaine !!!

je ne peux pas te parler bcp parce que internet marche très mal.

je vais essyer de lire l'article que tu as écrit et je te réécrirai quand je seraie libre .

 

depuis hier, il ya pleins de journalistes qui no us appellent pour des entrevues.

hihi

a la prochaine, fanny

（ LE DEVOIR 05.05.2009 ）

 

Au Québec, le décompte est resté stable à trois infections, alors qu'aucun nouveau cas ne s'est déclaré depuis 24 heures.

 

 

(LA PRESSE 05.05.2009)

 

L'un des 29 étudiants de l'Université de Montréal qui ont été mis en quarantaine dans un hôtel situé dans le nord de la Chine par mesure préventive contre la grippe A (H1N1) affirme qu'il n'y a aucun sentiment de panique au sein du groupe.

Mardi, au cours d'une entrevue téléphonique avec le diffuseur CTV News depuis la ville de Changchun, Anne-Marie Roberge a dit que les étudiants estiment que la situation est frustrante, mais qu'ils se considèrent comme étant bien traités.

Mme Roberge a expliqué que les autorités chinoises leur fournissent trois repas par jour et qu'ils ont la permission de marcher dans un jardin.

Elle a ajouté que les étudiants et elle sont également testés trois fois par jour pour déceler des symptômes de la grippe A (H1N1), mais que personne du groupe n'a présenté de signes de la maladie jusqu'à présent.

Anne-Marie Roberge pense faire partie du seul groupe d'étrangers qui a été mis en quarantaine dans la province de Jinlin par mesure de prévention contre la grippe.


更新：（2009.05.06）

加拿大学生已被提前解除隔离，第一次出旅馆散步

（图片来自报纸主页）

加拿大外交部长国会事务代理人奥博莱（Deepak Obhrai）透露，就在昨天（5日），加拿大政府向北京方面递交一份外交照会，以寻求解决这一事件。奥博莱说：“我们对此事表示严重关切，同时总理也表示，目前阶段没有什么理由隔离这些学生。”

加拿大外交部长坎农（Lawrence Cannon）将于本周五到访中国。

“周末与中国有关方面会面时，我会向他们再了解此事。 ”他说。



关于加拿大学生提前解除隔离的报道：

（CYPERPRESSE.CA,le 06 mai 2009 à 06h55 | Mis à jour à 14h44 ）

链接:http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/national/200905/06/01-853694-la-chine-leve-la-quarantaine-des-etudiants-quebecois.php
 

Lin Ji, directeur adjoint du département de santé de la province de Jilin, a déclaré que la décision de lever la quarantaine avait été prise sur la suggestion du ministère chinois des Affaires étrangères.

（“解除隔离的决定是基于中国外交部的建议。”）

«Après avoir pris connaissance de l'état de santé des étudiants, le ministère des Affaires étrangères a proposé (mercredi) matin de les libérer plus tôt», a dit M. Lin.

Mardi, le secrétaire général de l'ONU, Ban Ki-moon, avait fait savoir qu'il demanderait aux gouvernements de revenir sur les mesures restrictives en matière commerciale et de circulation pour cause de grippe A (H1N1), à moins qu'elles n'aient des fondements scientifiques clairs.


加拿大外交部长国会事务代理人奥博莱（Deepak Obhrai）透露，就在昨天（5日），加拿大政府向北京方面递交一份外交照会，以寻求解决这一事件。奥博莱说：“我们对此事表示严重关切，同时总理也表示，目前阶段没有什么理由隔离这些学生。”