Responding to COVID-19 with the border we have

There will be a lot to learn from the policy experiment we are all living with because of COVID-19. The U.S.-Canada border has been managed co-operatively and well, but we have room to experiment and innovate.

The COVID-19 border co-operation story is not a perfect one, but there are existing tools that Washington and Ottawa could still use to make the border work better for both countries during this pandemic and any future ones. White House photograph by Joyce N. Boghosian, The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CHRISTOPHER SANDS

May 27, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven policy change as dramatically as the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States did. And in both cases, the U.S.-Canada border has been a focal point. On March 18, in response to predictions of a rapid spread of this coronavirus strain, the United St...

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