Transport Canada warned Smith "to depart Canadian waters and not make landfall", a spokesperson told CBC News. The Canadian Coast Guard would monitor the vessel's transit as it left Canadian waters. But Smith told CBC that the wording of the original Transport Canada ban was "ambiguous", saying the incident is one of bureaucracy "out of control". "Canada has no legal right to apply Canadian law to a foreigner in [an] international waterway," Smith told the publication. "They would need a SWAT team to make me do that," told CBC News.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 27, 2020 20:37 UTC