The world's longest undefended border will close to non-essential travel thanks to the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Canada and the United States has mutually agreed to make the move. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said "essential travel will continue," to preserve "critical" supply chains between countries. "Canadians and Americans cross the border every day to do essential work or for other urgent reasons — that will not be impacted," Trudeau said yesterday.
Windsor nurses working in Detroit hospitals are essential. Auto parts crossing borders are essential. Canadian beer is awesome and we want to bring some back: non-essential.
The latest move involving U.S. citizens came on Wednesday, 2 days after Canada closed the border to all but Canadian citizens or permanent residents. Exceptions were made for diplomats, aircrews, immediate family members, and U.S. citizens. The U.S. citizens section is now limited to essential travel.
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#cdntavel difficult to do right now. You can read about places to visit down the road. We have travel coverage and you can also click on a province link to find out more about a specific place. https://t.co/g8Vqyjn6E4 @canadian_xing #covid_19
— Chad Rubel (@canadian_xing) March 16, 2020
We called our blog Canadian Crossing for Canadians to cross their own country and Americans (primarily) to cross into Canada. For now and some time, Americans and Canadians have to stay on their own side of the border. We know this extraordinary circumstance is highly rare.
We may not like it. We can be very sad about it.
The timetables tied to COVID-19 coronavirus are only theoretical. This move has no specific timetable. Flattening the curve is as popular as social distancing.
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On the right side of our page, we have links to our travel section as well as individual provinces where you can learn more about potential travel destinations. We will travel again, especially to Canada. A little research for future travel. A good use of time.
photo credit: me
Twitter capture: @canadian_xing
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