Canada to bar entry to non-citizens and permanent residents

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Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

Canada is barring entry to all travellers who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced today.
There will be exceptions for air crew and diplomats.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is stepping up manpower, educational materials and screening measures at airports and all other entry points to Canada to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

Beginning today, all incoming travellers, no matter where their country of origin is, will be asked if they are experiencing symptoms such as coughing, difficulty breathing or fever. They also will need to acknowledge that they are being asked to self-isolate for 14 days if arriving from any international location.

All travellers seeking entry into Canada will have to answer the health screening questions and CBSA officers will be on the lookout for visible signs of illness. They will refer any traveller who they suspect of being ill, regardless of how the traveller answered the health screening question, to public health authorities for further evaluation.


Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbsa-border-airports-screening-trudeau-covid19-coronavirus-1.5498866

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Almost useless measure since US citizens are still allowed to cross border nt

[WePurrsevere]

3. I'm not finding that US citizens are exempt in this...

Can you point me to where it says that or a link that does?

I have new found close family there and was planning on visiting some of them in late April/mid May and again sometime in the Summer but it's all up in the air for now.

[luvtheGWN]

5. U.S. citizens are exempt,

as are diplomats and air crew.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

6. It says it in the article that was posted

There will be exceptions for air crew, diplomats, immediate family members of citizens and, "at this time," U.S. citizens, Trudeau said.

[WePurrsevere]

7. Thanks! So annoying, I even used my browsers page search...

feature to double check.

[luvtheGWN]

4. Denying entry for US citizens

would mean that trucks full of goods going both ways across the border would be held up indefinitely. We're much too closely integrated -- our economies, our families etc, -- to allow a border closure.

[WePurrsevere]

8. Thank you. That makes more sense...

I used my browsers page search and missed it too.

Not only do I have family up there, we live on the border, travel back and forth a few times a year, and barring all travel with the US.made no sense to me.

[luvtheGWN]

9. Hey, me too!

Only a river separates me from the U.S. And the closest bridge crossing it is only 15 minutes away! But I vowed not to cross that bridge the day after the 2016 election -- and I haven't! Waiting for Nov. 4 to cross it again.

[WePurrsevere]

11. That's cool! We live about the same distance from a bridge...

that crosses the Seaway near Brockville. My paternal side are mostly west of there.

I can't blame you from staying on that side for now. I didn't know until a couple of years ago that I was born a dual citizen and entitled to that (even though I was born/adopted in the US) or I'd have gotten my application to have it recognized in sooner.

[luvtheGWN]

12. I can see Fort Niagara (northwest NY state) from my deck.

I think of my American friends and family every day.

[WePurrsevere]

13. What a great view to have!

If I lived that close to Niagara Falls and Toronto I'd be thrilled. I'd been to Niagara Falls, Canada around a dozen times, mostly when I was younger, and there's nothing like it for breathtaking splendor.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Truckers will be able to get through, even if US citizens are blocked later. . . . nt

[Igel]

2. That's a really poorly constructed title to that article.

Canada to bar entry to all but citizens and permanent residents

versus

Canada to bar entry to non-citizens and permanent residents


Just a few characters more, but it avoids the "Canada to bar entry to ... permanent residents" reading.

[Baclava]

10. Actual: 'Canada to bar entry to travellers who are not citizens, permanent residents or Americans'