
Come this November 8th, how many Canadians will want to go back to crossing border bridges for a day in the Buffalo area if they have to pay up to $300 for a COVID test on top of showing proof of vaccination?
Canada’s Travel Rules Punitive for Middle-Class Families – Canadian Travel & Tourism Roundtable
Mandatory pre-departure PCR testing for fully vaccinated Canadian travellers is proving prohibitively expensive for Canadian families
Travel & Tourism Roundtable calls on the federal government to remove the pre-departure PCR test and amend the discriminatory child policy for travelling minors
A Brief Foreword from Doug Draper at Niagara At Large –

For more than a year, and a half bridges like this – the Rainbow Bridge between Niagara Falls, Ontario and Niagara Falls, New York – have been closed to most traffic.
As this coming Monday, November 8th approaches for re-opening border crossings to so-called “non-essential” Canadian travellers for the first time in more than a year and a half, we learn that community leaders in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York are preparing to hold a media event on the morning of the 8th, welcoming their Canadian neighbours back.
That welcoming event seems nice on the surface but political and business leaders on the American side may be in for a letdown because Canada’s federal government is continuing to insist that any Canadian returning to their home from a trip to, let’s say, Buffalo, is not only going to have to show they are fully vaccinated. They are also going to have to show that they have tested negative for COVID-19. Continue reading