While the Canada-U.S. land border is set to remain closed to discretionary travellers until November 21 at least, changes are coming to allow more extended family members into Canada on compassionate grounds.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marco Mendicino, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and Health Minister Patty Hajdu will be making an announcement about updated border measures and travel regulations at 2:30 p.m. ET.Sources tell CTV News that certain extended family members or other close loved ones of Canadian citizens, such as children, grandchildren and siblings, as well as long-term couples could make a case to cross the border.
This is also expected to include new provisions allowing for U.S. travellers to enter Canada for compassionate reasons, like the death of a loved one who is not a family member. While restrictions on non-essential travel from other countries have been extended until Oct. 31, it remains unclear whether this policy change will apply to international families.who are immediate family members of either Canadian citizens or permanent residents can enter Canada to be reunited, under a limited exemption to the current border restrictions. This has allowed both foreign and cross-border Canada-U.S.
While those eligible to cross the border for this reason include parents, spouses, common-law partners, dependent children and their children, many other families remain separated by the border restrictions including non-married couples. People in that predicament have been
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This is 🐂💩🤦
il_ss1 Yes! Finaly!🇨🇦❤🇨🇦
Hell No
Should have happened 3 months ago but better now then never. So tired of this scam. Fake tests and corruption.
All those cases and very few deaths, this virus is coming whether you like it or not, pay me now or pay me later
CTV_Liveat5 They shouldn’t
If North and South Korea can reunite families, surely Canada and the United States can do the same.
So 1000 per day isnt enough?
Why not Forcasting 1000 new cases a day in ontario..Lets open the borders and make it 1500
that means case number will go higher thanks to 'family reunification'
Cases are going up, yeah good idea let’s ease up on the cross border rules that’s sure to help
No, don’t ease birders, please.
Does not bode well. Sort of like asking a meth head to a dinner party in a pharmacy.
Of course the world is welcomed by Trudeau just to walk across at Roxham Rd where all these rules are disregarded because of Liberal virtue signalling stupidity...
Good. Let it run it course. Only human ego is dumb enough to think it can dodge a virus forever.
FacesofAdvocacy anxiously awaits this announcement! We have been separated for far too long; and there is a way to test, quarantine, and safely reunite TimetoReunite
Now is not the time to ease any restrictions
No thanks
and we are on red alert.
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