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Canada-U.S. Border To Remain Closed For Another Month

by | Jun 16, 2020 | Kitchener Immigration Lawyer, News

Canada-U.S. Border To Remain Closed

Canada-U.S. Border To Remain ClosedTORONTO — An agreement has once again been reached between Canada and the United States to keep the border closed to all non-essential or “discretionary” travel for another month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced.

The extension on the existing agreement means that the border restrictions will stay in place until July 21, even as both countries continue to reopen their economies.

“This is an important decision that will keep people in both of our countries safe,” Trudeau said Tuesday.

The agreement, as it stands, exempts the flow of trade and commerce, as well as temporary foreign workers and vital health-care workers such as nurses who live and work on opposite sides of the border. Tourists and cross-border visits remain prohibited.

This is the third time the agreement has been extended, after first being imposed in March, with the current extension on border restrictions set to expire June 21.

The prime minister continues to emphasize that reopening Canada’s border to international travel would be risky as countries worldwide are still working to contain outbreaks and more robust contact tracing has yet to be established.

To date there have been more than 99,000 COVID-19 cases in Canada, and more than 8,000 people have died, while the U.S. currently has more than 2.1 million active COVID-19 cases and more than 118,000 people have died in that country. Newly reopened states have started to see increases in their active caseloads and hospitalization rates in recent days, escalating fears of a second wave of infections in the U.S.

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