Canada drops to 9th spot on list of 'most powerful passports' in age of coronavirus

Luxembourg and Spain join Italy and Finland in fourth place, while Austria has risen to join Denmark in fifth. The index is updated in real time throughout the year, as and when visa policy changes come into effect.

"Look at Spain, or any other country which has a complete lockdown. Before, as a Spanish citizen you had one of the best passports in the world in terms of free travel," explains Kälin. "Now, if you were also a Bangladeshi citizen -- normally a very bad passport for visa-free travel -- you could freely go out to the airport and board a flight, if you find one, and leave Spain.

While policy is usually guided by "questions of mostly economic and geopolitical standing of the country," it will be interesting, says Kalin, to see whether health security will in future be a bigger factor when it comes to visa waivers. "Japan's a great country, but you can only live in Japan," explains Kalin. "With the US passport you can only really live in the United States. You even need a settlement permit to go to Canada."

Unfortunately some use Canada as a stepping stone to get to the US To the ones that picked Canada 2nd -and don’t respect it /work here...fuck off !!

The higher the ranking, the easier one can travel without visa or other travel restriction. Changes all the time (I have a passport which went down from number 1 to now 3), but who cares right now anyway.

Oh no!!!!!!

I would have thought the endless waves of third world immigration we are bringing in here would have catapulted us to 1 and make us stay there for good. What gives?

How do the Liberals twist this to blame Harper.

Now there’s some real useful information.

This is nothing more than a marketing ploy by the company promoting this list. Be better

I’m surprised we are even that high

Canada’s been going down for in lots of areas for years. Used to be great.

Is this twitter feed from CTV trying to emulate FOX NEWS? Get it together CTV. Lots of who cares posts! !!!

Who cares? Nobody is travelling. Not sure if you noticed that 🙄

Everything about Canada has dropped because of who is our Prime Minister. It's not rocket science people.

Trudeau’s Post National State.

Nice set up . Just something else for EvanLSolomon and the Cons to blame on PRIME MINISTER Justin Trudeau.

Well then the States should be at the bottom with China

Who the hell is traveling? This, to me, indicates we’re following the National Guidelines and doing what we’re supposed to be doing. StayHomeCanada COVID19 Good for us. I’m not sure people 2 shits what our passport ranking is. We’d rather FlattenTheCurve 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

This information is super important in a time when no one is to leave their homes let alone the country. useless

We are worried about this, really?

Almost no country to hide from Covid 19 Wuhan virus

Now there's some relevant news lol. What you got on chloroquine?

Stay home, stay safe

Okay - I'm going to have to call a preemptive moratorium on the phrase 'in the age of coronavirus'

Who needs a passport?

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