Removing restrictions and mandates...

[theguv]

So it looks like the Federal government are finally removing their restrictions (all hinging on JT signing off on them) at the end of this month.

Woohoo! Only a year late but if they do it it does mean that I can activate my PR. Assuming it happens I'll be booking my flight for the end of October (got a week off work so I'll take 5 days out in BC, jump through the immigration hoops and try to see my brother in his care facility. Oh, and relax!

I've got my ex sister in law's address for the PR card to be delivered to (pretty sure they don't ship them overseas... Need to dig out a bunch of papers and re-research a few things but it looks like things are a go finally!

 

[Tubsmagee]

So it looks like the Federal government are finally removing their restrictions (all hinging on JT signing off on them) at the end of this month.

Woohoo! Only a year late but if they do it it does mean that I can activate my PR. Assuming it happens I'll be booking my flight for the end of October (got a week off work so I'll take 5 days out in BC, jump through the immigration hoops and try to see my brother in his care facility. Oh, and relax!

I've got my ex sister in law's address for the PR card to be delivered to (pretty sure they don't ship them overseas... Need to dig out a bunch of papers and re-research a few things but it looks like things are a go finally!

I hope the restrictions/requirements are listed but did they prevent you from landing previously?

 

[Ponga]

So it looks like the Federal government are finally removing their restrictions (all hinging on JT signing off on them) at the end of this month.

Woohoo! Only a year late but if they do it it does mean that I can activate my PR. Assuming it happens I'll be booking my flight for the end of October (got a week off work so I'll take 5 days out in BC, jump through the immigration hoops and try to see my brother in his care facility. Oh, and relax!

I've got my ex sister in law's address for the PR card to be delivered to (pretty sure they don't ship them overseas... Need to dig out a bunch of papers and re-research a few things but it looks like things are a go finally!

Correct about the PR card only being mailed to a Canadian address.

Shouldn't be too many `hoops' to jump through; usually a pretty painless process...even in BC. LOL! Feel free to ask more questions if you'd like.

Congrats!

 

[theguv]

I hope the restrictions/requirements are listed but did they prevent you from landing previously?

I'm not jabbed so if I were to land under the current reg's I'd need to be under house arrest for 14 days. I can't afford to spend 14 days sat in a HoJo watching cable and eating dorritos to prove I don't have a cold!

If the regs are dropped at the end of the month then I can get out there for a few days, land, see my bro and get back to the UK to work and ditch my stuff.

 

[Ponga]

I'm not jabbed so if I were to land under the current reg's I'd need to be under house arrest for 14 days. I can't afford to spend 14 days sat in a HoJo watching cable and eating dorritos to prove I don't have a cold!

If the regs are dropped at the end of the month then I can get out there for a few days, land, see my bro and get back to the UK to work and ditch my stuff.

Only one `r' in Doritos. LOL!

Not sure why ArriveCAN will be optional though as of Oct 1. A traveler like yourself (who would seem to have been the target traveler the app was designed for) will clearly not choose to use it, if it's no longer mandatory. Not judging you...just stating the obvious.

 

[Ponga]

Looks official now:
https://www.cp24.com/news/canada-ending-requirements-for-covid-19-vaccines-arrivecan-app-at-border-sept-30-1.6079915

 

[theguv]

I'm hopeful but I'll believe it when the press release is out!

 

[Ponga]

I'm hopeful but I'll believe it when the press release is out!

It was on the morning news today, but you may not see anything `official', until after the mandates expire at midnight on Sept. 30.

 

[theguv]

It's actually happening.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/arrivecan-border-covid-end-1.6595710