Hurricane season begins June and runs until end of November. It's common knowledge. If you don't know that, then it is a traveller's responsibility to find out. Anyone who books a trip to Mexico or Caribbean takes their chances. It's their choice, not the Canadian governments, so they should be responsible for their own decisions. It's common sense. I would never travel to those areas during hurricane season. All those people saying the Dutch, French, Britain and US were there, but Canada was not. Of course they were there. It was their countries! St Martin is half Dutch & half French; USVI is American; BVI is British. And after Irma it is not 'business as usual' the next day. Airports were destroyed or severely damaged, so number of flights in were limited. If a coup occurred, that is unpredictable. Then Canadian citizens should expect their government to rescue them, as their lives are in danger from an unpredictable cause!