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Joe Durak and Valeria Martinez Viademonte are expecting their second child on April 16. Problem is, their home is in Australia and the surrogate who is carrying their baby lives in Canada.
Among the many people caught up in the COVID-19 nightmare are those involved in international surrogacy arrangements: expecting parents trying to get in, new parents trying to get out and others stuck in quarantine, unable to see their newborn children. Canada has become something of an international surrogacy magnet, so a good deal of this is playing out right here. Among the pressing questions are whether exceptions should be made for these foreign nationals, whose children are Canadian, and, if not, who will look after their babies.
Durak and Viademonte had planned to be here well in advance of the birth — on March 24. But when the coronavirus advisories started rolling out, they moved their travel forward. The earliest flights they could get had them entering the country March 18.
But that, as it happens, was the day Canada closed the border to all foreigners other than...