{"id":54794,"date":"2020-08-23T14:12:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T19:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54794"},"modified":"2020-08-23T14:12:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T19:12:38","slug":"a-danish-journalist-arrived-to-cover-the-tmx-pipeline-the-guard-at-yvr-decided-to-deport-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54794","title":{"rendered":"A Danish Journalist Arrived to Cover the TMX Pipeline. The Guard at YVR Decided to Deport Him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Danish Journalist Arrived to Cover the TMX Pipeline. The Guard at YVR Decided to Deport Him<\/a><\/h3>\n

Kristian Lindhardt says Canada\u2019s laws stifle press freedom afforded \u2018during every crisis.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Danish documentary-maker Kristian Lindhardt works with his country\u2019s version of the CBC and has visited BC many times working on his documentary about the the Tsleil Waututh First Nation\u2019s opposition to the TMX pipeline expansion.\u00a0Photo: Supplied<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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When Danish journalist Kristian Lindhardt arrived at the Vancouver airport on Friday, he knew he would face additional levels of border scrutiny because of the coronavirus. Lindhardt wasn\u2019t too concerned, though, because he has international press credentials from Denmark\u2019s version of CBC and a statement from Chief Reuben George of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation explaining that Lindhardt is here to report on the Trans Mountain pipeline. Lindhardt had also made all the necessary arrangements for a 14-day quarantine in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

But just as Lindhardt was about to get through customs a border guard pulled him aside. The guard questioned him for hours and made him sign a document promising to fly back to Denmark today. \u201cI asked what happens if I don\u2019t sign them,\u201d Lindhardt told The Tyee over the phone Saturday morning, just hours before his flight back to Europe was set to depart. \u201cAnd he said he would detain me in a jail cell.\u201d<\/p>\n

The B.C. government\u00a0currently deems<\/a>\u00a0\u201cnewspapers, television, radio, call centres, online news outlets and other media services\u201d as essential work. But there is no direction from the federal government saying journalists must be let into the country, according to Green Party MP and former leader of the party Elizabeth May, who has looked into the issue. At the end of the day, it\u2019s up to individual border guards to decide who can enter and who can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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A Danish Journalist Arrived to Cover the TMX Pipeline. The Guard at YVR Decided to Deport Him Kristian Lindhardt says Canada\u2019s laws stifle press freedom afforded \u2018during every crisis.\u2019 Danish documentary-maker Kristian Lindhardt works with his country\u2019s version of the CBC and has visited BC many times working on his documentary about the the Tsleil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[94,103,12878,462,512,607,938,23884,28713,8054],"class_list":["post-54794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-geoff-dembicki","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-pandemic","tag-press-freedom","tag-thetyee-ca","tag-tmx-pipeline","tag-transmountain-pipeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54795,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54794\/revisions\/54795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}