Fear of Americans bringing the coronavirus across the border has led Canadians to report cars with foreign license plates to the police, or vandalize them.
Canada has extended its ban on American tourists at least one more month, Canadain Public Safety Minister Bill Blair announced Friday.
The US-Canada border has been closed since March 31, when the two countries banned all nonessential travel between in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus and extended several times. The border closure was just one part of Canada's somewhat successful national effort to shut down the pandemic, while the number of both confirmed cases and deaths has continued to spiral in the United States.
"We're taking this step to keep people in both our countries safe - because your health and safety is always our top priority," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Treadeu tweeted Friday.Though the current restrictions are set to expire September 21, a majority of Canadians think the travel ban should last even longer, according to a BBC poll published Thursday. It found that 80% of Canadians want their country to ban American travelers until at least the end of the year.
Some Canadians have even turned into"citizen detectives," working to catch Americans who have tried to sneak across the closed border, The New York Times' Karen Schwartz reported. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, Schwartz was permitted to drive from Colorado to Alberta to visit her father if she submitted to a two-week quarantine upon arrival.
"Besides the fear of getting sick, the real stress is parking a vehicle with American plates, and hoping that nobody notices them," Schwartz wrote of her trip.
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