WASHINGTON—If you have family in the U.S. you’ve been hoping to drive to see, if you own a cottage across the border you’re waiting to visit, if you’ve been holding your vacation planning thinking a road trip to New York City or New England might still be in the cards this summer, there’s bad news. The reopening of the U.S. land border to Canadian travellers is likely a good way off.
We already learned last week that the U.S. wasn’t co-ordinating its border reopening with Canada’s Aug. 9 welcoming of vaccinated American citizens, to the tremendous surprise of many expert observers. But when the Joe Biden White House confirmed Monday it is no longer planning to lift international travel restrictions in the near future over concerns about the spread of the Delta variant, it was a pretty clear sign that the thinking in U.S. government is no longer about how to return to normal, but how to stave off disaster.
