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06/22/2021

Pressure Builds to Open U.S.-Canada Border

Lawmakers call on Biden, Trudeau to ease COVID restrictions

A Florida man takes out ads to call out the U.S. and Canadian governments for failing to lift border restrictions. Lawmakers use salty-ish language. Business owners worry about losing a second lucrative summer season.

As restrictions on nonessential travel across the U.S.-Canada land border enter their 16th month this week, pressure is rising on both sides for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden to crack it open — even a little — or to provide something, anything, about what a reopening plan might look like.

Ottawa on Monday did announce some changes at the border, to start July 5. They'd allow Canadian citizens and permanent residents who are fully inoculated with a Health Canada-authorized vaccine, and who test negative for COVID-19 before and after arrival, to bypass some quarantine and testing requirements.

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