Canada’s envoy to the US says just because the two countries have been working together to manage their shared border doesn’t mean they were always going to be moving in perfect symmetry.
Kirsten Hillman says both Canada and the US are well within their rights to be making their own unilateral decisions about COVID−19 travel restrictions.
Hillman appeared today alongside US interim ambassador Arnold Chacón for a panel discussion on the bilateral relationship hosted by the Wilson Center’s Canada Institute.
The comments are their first public remarks since Canada promised to begin letting fully vaccinated US citizens and permanent residents back across the border as of Aug. 9.
The US Department of Homeland Security, however, extended its own restrictions at the land border with Canada until Aug. 21.
Chacón says he believes the two countries are in "a good place" and that their bilateral discussions about the border will continue.
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