Federal advisory panel recommends an end to hotel quarantine in Canada & implementing a 7-day quarantine (instead of 14 days)

The Panel recommends that the requirement for all air travellers to quarantine in government-authorized accommodations be discontinued. However, travellers subject to quarantine must provide a suitable quarantine plan for approval and adhere to this plan. The Panel recommends that the government continue to ensure that those who do not have a suitable quarantine plan be required to adhere to an alternative one (for example, in designated quarantine facilities). The country is in the third wave of COVID-19. This must be taken into consideration when phasing out current border measures such as government-authorized accommodations.
In Canada, the current approach to mandatory hotel quarantine:

is not applied equally to land and air travellers
is expensive to administer
provides opportunities for travellers to bypass by paying a fine
is inconsistent with the incubation period of the virus
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