One year after closing, U.S.-Canada border remains closed

Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University in Bellingham, is hoping for a phased and safe reopening of the border.  

“So, what I would like to see is testing out a pilot project. We've done that a lot in our region, and proving that it is possible for, let's say, me as a traveler to submit my vaccine status to a border officer before I arrived there and in a seamless electronic manner. And that that should be sufficient enough for me to cross the border,” Trautman said.