DIY-HP-LED
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Well, Canada just closed the border to the US, ya poor bastards are trapped in the nuthouse now! If Trump closed it we would have read about it in a tweet, before anybody else knew. Jimmy, you'll have to come as a refugee now, ya should have jumped in the car and made a run for civilization yesterday!A lesson I learned a long time ago.
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Canada, U.S. border temporarily closing to non-essential traffic to slow COVID-19
U.S. President Donald Trump says temporary restrictions could last 30 days
Canada and the United States have agreed to restrict non-essential travel across the border as both countries try to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus — but they insist key supplies will still flow between the two nations.
U.S. President Donald Trump first tweeted the news Wednesday morning. Soon afterward, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a news conference to announce that travellers will no longer be able to cross the border for recreational and tourism purposes.
"These measures will last in place as long as we feel they need to last," he told reporters from outside his home at Rideau Cottage, on the grounds of Rideau Hall in Ottawa, where he's in self-isolation.
"In both our countries, we're encouraging people to stay home. We're telling our citizens not to visit their neighbours if they don't absolutely have to."
Canadian citizens will be able to get home, although the government says travellers presenting symptoms won't be able to board flights.
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said that Canadians and Americans who cross the border every day to do essential work will not be affected.
"We know, for example, there are many border cities where citizens on one side of the border travel each day across that border to work in hospitals and to provide other essential services," he said. "We have to make sure those people can get to work."
Blair also said international students, workers on visas and temporary foreign workers will also be able to enter Canada, with the expectation that they'll respect the government's request to self-isolate for 14 days.
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Trudeau said both sides agreed to preserve the supply chains which ensure that food, fuel and life-saving medicines reach people on both sides of the border.
"Supply chains, including trucking, will not be affected by this new measure," he said.
At his own press conference in Washington, Trump said the temporary restrictions, which he stressed were the result of a mutual decision, could last a month.
"I would say 30 days, and hopefully at the end of 30 days we'll be in great shape," he said.
"I think essential is medical, we have military working together, we have industry working together, and again it's not affecting trade, so things like that. But just leisurely — let's go to a restaurant to have dinner, which a lot of people do, they come both ways, they go on both directions, that kind of thing we have ended on a temporary basis."
Restricting travel in Canada on the table: Trudeau
When asked if he's considering limiting travel within Canada, Trudeau said his government is "looking at all options."
"We will continue to look at measures as they become necessary," he said, adding that invoking the Emergencies Act would be a "significant step."
"Not one that we feel we need today, but not one we are closing the door to in the future if necessary."
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