I don’t get it. Was it closed or not? The border in Australia is also mostly closed, but some people are indeed allowed to pass. They are forced to do quarantines though.
Yeah not quite Australia but closer to Australia than to what we’ve had. The border has been nearly closed to all except citizens and close partners. Canada has forced 14-day quarantines for everyone entering, and fined a guy $500k for stopping to sightsee on his way to Alaska. One weird thing is that while the land border basically only lets citizens go into their country (with rare exceptions), I gather that Canadians can fly to the US, but not the reverse. So returning Canadians would be a major source of infections.
I think sane policy would have increased returning quarantine to 3 weeks to be safe, and enforced it quite strictly. Then pour tons of resources into contact tracing as well.
The border is largely closed with allowances for pass-through to Alaska.
In practice, I agree. With the US right there, there was no way we could be Australia.
EDIT: Canada Border Services Agency has a fairly straightforward webform to determine eligeability to enter. https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/services/covid/menu-eng.html
I don’t get it. Was it closed or not? The border in Australia is also mostly closed, but some people are indeed allowed to pass. They are forced to do quarantines though.
Yeah not quite Australia but closer to Australia than to what we’ve had. The border has been nearly closed to all except citizens and close partners. Canada has forced 14-day quarantines for everyone entering, and fined a guy $500k for stopping to sightsee on his way to Alaska. One weird thing is that while the land border basically only lets citizens go into their country (with rare exceptions), I gather that Canadians can fly to the US, but not the reverse. So returning Canadians would be a major source of infections.
I think sane policy would have increased returning quarantine to 3 weeks to be safe, and enforced it quite strictly. Then pour tons of resources into contact tracing as well.