Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu is expecting the Canada/U.S. border will be closed for another month.
The current agreement expires on July 21 but Hajdu believes it will be extended until August 21.
The Thunder Bay-Superior North MP says COVID-19 cases in the United States continue to rise and the Canadian government doesn’t want to put local lives at risk.
Hajdu says we are headed in the right direction.
When asked by John Ongaro of Acadia News about American plates being spotted across northwestern Ontario, Hajdu downplayed beliefs that people are being allowed across the border despite the COVID-19 shutdown.
Hajdu says several Americans own businesses here, Snowbirds may have U.S. plates or people have relationships with immediate family that our American.
She stressed border officials are doing a good job of screening all those who come through.
Two Minnesota residents were recently caught in Fort Frances after failing to comply with the Mandatory Quarantine Act.
(Files from Vic Krassowski and John Ongaro Thunder Bay)
