Sabrina Maddeaux: Trudeau's border closure is a sham designed to only allow the rich to travel. Time to put an end to it

“In Niagara Region alone, 40,000 people count on cross-border tourism to put food on the table. Eighty per cent of Niagara Falls’ tourism revenue comes in 20 per cent of the time. July through Labour Day is disproportionately important to sustain our community … cutting that period short even a little bit will significantly impact their likelihood of survival,” reads a press release from the Canadian Tourism Roundtable.

Either nonessential travel to the U.S. is safe enough to allow or it isn’t. If it’s permitted by air, there’s no good reason it shouldn’t be permitted by land. Canada’s plainly hypocritical policy can only be explained by a government that wants to have its cake and eat it, too. The Liberals hope to keep wealthier constituents happy while maintaining restricted land crossings in their back pocket as evidence of their vigilance if things go south.

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