These are good points. I don’t personally think Trudeau will keep the borders closed beyond the current extension due to political pressure from the US. But with the riots, who knows? Trump may be distracted.Hi, dual citizen here. Let's remember what "the border is closed" actually means: No tourism, no travel allowed that a border guard deems to be for fun or "non-essential." But there are plenty of other reasons to cross, hence the Air Canada flights. Also, AC will fly you somewhere, but they don't get to decide whether or not you're allowed into the country to which they take you, U.S. or anywhere else. Not their problem.
Citizens are free to repatriate, so U.S. citizens living in Canada can still drive across the border, and if they're also Canadian citizens, like me, they can drive back across after providing a plan for how they will self-isolate for 14 days.
I wish I could remember where I read it, but someone wrote a piece (for CBC maybe?) about his theory that the border will open in the next six weeks due to a combination of political and economic pressures. Doug Ford has already said that he feels people who own cottages and "pay the majority of property taxes" for certain towns can't be denied access. How long before that logic extends to people from other provinces? Other countries? How many businesses will beg for tourists to be allowed for their vital summer season? If CERB isn't extended, how many people will be desperate for those seasonal jobs?
Who knows if he is right, but discussing the issue in purely public-health perspectives is probably not looking at the bigger picture.
The PM is busy trying to figure out how to reunite families despite the border being closed, so I have to wonder why would he be taking the time to figure all that out if he intends on opening the border again in three weeks?
I actually had a good chuckle over this! For just shy of $1,000 you can spend 44 HOURS getting to Orlando, seriously?!?! Who would actually pick that ?The first flight on Air Canada from Halifax is June 21. Look at those crappy flight times!
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Hi, dual citizen here. Let's remember what "the border is closed" actually means: No tourism, no travel allowed that a border guard deems to be for fun or "non-essential." But there are plenty of other reasons to cross, hence the Air Canada flights. Also, AC will fly you somewhere, but they don't get to decide whether or not you're allowed into the country to which they take you, U.S. or anywhere else. Not their problem.
Citizens are free to repatriate, so U.S. citizens living in Canada can still drive across the border, and if they're also Canadian citizens, like me, they can drive back across after providing a plan for how they will self-isolate for 14 days.
I wish I could remember where I read it, but someone wrote a piece (for CBC maybe?) about his theory that the border will open in the next six weeks due to a combination of political and economic pressures. Doug Ford has already said that he feels people who own cottages and "pay the majority of property taxes" for certain towns can't be denied access. How long before that logic extends to people from other provinces? Other countries? How many businesses will beg for tourists to be allowed for their vital summer season? If CERB isn't extended, how many people will be desperate for those seasonal jobs?
Who knows if he is right, but discussing the issue in purely public-health perspectives is probably not looking at the bigger picture.
I wonder if that time in the air counts towards your quarantine time?I actually had a good chuckle over this! For just shy of $1,000 you can spend 44 HOURS getting to Orlando, seriously?!?! Who would actually pick that ?
I wonder if that time in the air counts towards your quarantine time?
None of us could have predicted this, it’s crazy how much the world is disrupted and specifically for us travellers our travel world. If you don’t get August I hope you can plan a make up trip even better!!Why did I pick a user name based on the date I was going? That wasn’t very smart in retrospect lol