Leaky border: Tourists and quarantine cheats threaten Canada amid U.S. COVID-19 surge

OTTAWA/VANCOUVER - For 67 days, tiny Prince Edward Island went without a single new case of COVID-19. That changed earlier this month when Canada’s smallest province, best known as the home of fiction’s Anne of Green Gables, announced a cluster of new cases linked to a foreign student who entered Canada from the United States.

“With tens of thousands of people crossing the border every day, there’s no way to enforce that” they follow the rules, said Colin Furness, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto. “It’s a little bit scary.” “The ice beneath our feet is getting steadily thinner in terms of what we’re allowing and the risk that we’re taking,” Furness said.While the border has been closed to non-essential travel since March 21, returning Canadians, essential workers and truckers, foreigners coming for family reunification, and even Americans driving to Alaska, are all allowed in.

A Florida couple were fined in rural Ontario this week for breaking the quarantine law, while a Minnesota couple were fined last week, also in Ontario. Police have also fined numerous U.S. citizens for stopping to hike in picturesque Banff National Park while en route to Alaska. Despite the surge, the Canadian government is under pressure from a group of 29 U.S. lawmakers who want a phased plan for reopening, and from family reunification advocates who say it is unfair that married people can cross the border to join their spouses while fiances or non-cohabitating domestic partners of Canadians cannot.

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Yikes! Lock it down, Canada! Don't let us in! Save yourselves. LOL The ones travelling are clearly highly irresponsible and can't be trusted.

We'll find you, and quarantine you, be warned, Americans.

people are crossing for legitimate reasons - but not enough is being done to ensure they self-isolate properly. as soon as they cross they should have isolated quarantine facilities to wait out their 14 days and then continue their journey. (at their expense)

Lock up the borders.

Where are the silent majority ?

Here come the zombies!

If it was the other way around, the USA would use harsh measures with Canadians

No tourists !

Canada should be like if you want to play stupid, please sign here. If caught you will be fined $1 billion, and you will be used as a test subject for a covid vaccine.

Verily Jesus came to help His people and give them joy

Can we just bomb murica plz.

Build the wall.

The day Cripples Stood up and walked away💥

so now you want walls on the border. make up your fu**ing mind.

A PATHETIC STATE OF AFFAIRS!!

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CANADA HAS REAL THREAT...if any country needed a wall that would be us!!..NEWS FLASH: AMERICANS...YOU ARE THE ONES WHO VOTED IN AN IDIOT INTO OFFICE!!! BRUTAL

Keds1250878727 The trump admin is DOUBTLESSLY trying to infect Canada. it is best to assume the trump admin is doing the worst possible thing at any moment.

Great Wall Of Canada has a nice ring to it.

.Normality day in england MUNCHE

Is that like leaky bowel syndrome only way to stop with a WALL or a quarks?!

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