Rapid testing at the border is a shot in the arm for Canada

We might also give some consideration to the notion that a Canada-U.S. joint border management framework might better prepare us for the next pandemic.

The Niagara Falls International Rainbow Bridge is pictured. Let’s accommodate the pent-up demand for a getaway from our U.S. visitors. For those Canadians who are justifiably concerned about importing COVID-19 or its nastier variants, there could be a readily available solution: rapid PCR testing, writes Deanna Horton. Pixabay photograph by Ray Miller

Opinion

BY DEANNA HORTON

May 19, 2021

Getting tough at the border can be done in an intelligent, targeted way. As Canadians, let’s do ourselves a favour by opening the border to the U.S.—in planned stages—starting before the summer tourist season. Having another summer of border shutdown will do unnecessary, perhaps irreparable,...

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