Long lines of semi-trailer trucks snaked away from the Canada-U.S. frontier Friday as a work-to-rule campaign by border agents slowed traffic to a crawl and marathon negotiations stretched into the afternoon just days before COVID-19 restrictions were scheduled to ease.
Land-border crossings like the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont., and the Blue Water Bridge in nearby Sarnia were reporting commercial delays of more than 90 minutes, while regular travellers at the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge near Niagara Falls were waiting in line for more than an hour.
“Our officers are administering a very different border than the one that we had some of these restrictions, and at the same time they are still going through a legal bargaining process, which we all hope will conclude at some point.” “Our bargaining team representing CBSA employees has been in mediation with CBSA and Treasury all night and through to this morning, and we're giving them a bit more time to negotiate at the table,” the union said in a statement.
The campaign comes just days before Canada plans to begin easing its COVID-19 restrictions at the border; as of midnight Sunday night, fully vaccinated U.S. citizens and permanent residents will be allowed back into the country for the first time since March 2020. “They cannot afford to lose any more business because of delays at the border, and Canada's economic recovery cannot take another setback.”
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