Every month since March 20, 2020, the government of Canada has rolled over, and sometimes expanded, the cabinet order laying out the border restrictions on the same day that the United States makes a similar extension of its rules. While a border closure is often described as an agreement between the two countries, government officials told me that talks between the two governments are mostly limited to coordinating the timing of the extensions. Both countries have, after all, taken quite different approaches even if commercial travelers like truck drivers, health care workers who commute across the border and those with business in Canada have never been blocked by either country or required to quarantine. But all Canadians can still go to the United States for any reason provided that they use an airplane rather than a motor vehicle, train, their feet or boat to get there. Then there is no federally mandated quarantine period when they arrive.

Source: International New York Times May 07, 2021 23:15 UTC