In the continued effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Government of Canada has announced that as of tomorrow, November 21, 2020, all travelers entering Canada as their final destination, regardless of citizenship (including Canadian citizens and permanent residents), must provide contact and quarantine information before entering on the ArriveCAN portal or smartphone app.

As a follow up to the Oct. 9 announcement, the Government released Bill C-9 on November 2, 2020 to make the promised updates to the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy 2.0 program.

Those traveling to the State of New York and have spent more than 24 hours in one of the designated states with significant COVID-19 case volumes may now be able to “test out” of state’s mandatory 14-day quarantine requirement.

Today, the Alberta Provincial and Canadian Federal Government announced a joint pilot program in Alberta whereby certain travellers arriving at Calgary International Airport or the Coutts land port-of-entry may be exempt from the mandatory quarantine requirement.

While there is no Federal quarantine requirement for those entering the US, some states have quarantine requirements in place with their own respective requirements and exceptions.