Sixteen months after the U.S.-Canada border closed, Canada appears to be making tentative first steps toward re-opening by abolishing quarantine requirements for returning Canadians, and an announcement that steps toward a fuller opening will be taken soon.
At present, entry to Canada for foreigners is limited to "essential" travel, and requires three days at a designated quarantine hotel as part of a 14-day quarantine. Canadian residents have also been subject to the 14-day rule. Both the 3-day and 14-day requirements are now gone for Canadians.
Prime Minister Trudeau told a news conference at Sault Ste Marie, Ontario that “We’re very hopeful that we’re going to see new steps on reopening announced in the coming weeks. We’re going to make sure that we’re not seeing a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, because nobody wants to go back to further restrictions after having done so much and sacrificed so much to get to this point.”
The border closing has been hard on travel and tourism related businesses in general, and has caused disruption in border areas where people normally have commuted and shopped across the border.
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