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Alaska Ping.
Posted on 08/30/2020 3:23:28 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
U.S. drivers are allowed across the border right now if they're headed to Alaska, but the Canadian Pandemic Act says they'd better not dawdle on the way up.
John Pennington, from Walton, Kentucky, was recently arrested in Banff for violating Canada's Quarantine Act...
Pennington was allowed through the border thanks to a loophole of sorts that lets Americans drive from the Lower 48 through Canada and into Alaska (and vice versa), as long as they drive straight through, i.e., they can't go looking at the majestic Banff mountains. Canada's rules give drivers "a reasonable period" to make the drive and they "must limit [their] travel within Canada to the most direct route" to their destination while "avoiding all national parks, leisure sites, and tourism activities."
the mounties arrested him, and he now faces a fine of up to $569,000 ($750,000 Canadian) as well as up to six months in jail. It's worth noting that Pennington had already been cautioned (and fined) by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police earlier in the trip but had continued to flout the law. Ironically, he now has to appear in
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Taking most of August with my wife our two kids and the dog in a Suburban, Best vacation ever!
Even though we took the Cassiar shortcut, sixty miles of DEEP mud... Still the best!
Thinking I will no longer recommending the Alcan.
The Canadians might have a good idea and that is a half million dollar fine for border violations. For the United States, that would end illegal immigration if each illegal alien were fined a a half million dollars.
I don’t understand why BC or Canada doesn’t want American tourist business.
lulz.
Thank You for posting.
Alaska Ping.
There goes my life long dream of driving the length of the highway.
Can’t stop at a national park - Can’t think of a less likely place to catch or transmit Covid than a gigantic national park in the middle of nowhere Canada.
Surely the guy fined $ 1/2 million did more than just stop the second time .... like maybe he was also dropping a deuce or something not mentioned in the story
It is still stupid.
Just take the Ferry from Seattle and Flip Canada off
F’m
Is he locked up? He needs to get outta the country.
I wish we had this. But even Canada won’t collect this. Not possible unless it’s bill gates or someone like that who’d actually end up in a picture taking event most likely.
I cannot believe they reelected Castro’s kid as PM. Justine is such a putz. As if someone going through western Canada is going to spread the virus.
What they should have done with the trust fund boy when he and his entourage went over the Quebec border to Harrington Lake to join his wife and kids over the Easter weekend.
Years ago I had regular business in Canada. I've crossed the border many times.
First rule: Canada is not the United States. Think the worst aspects of California and New York combined and then put on steroids. They don't play games. They take their nanny state very seriously.
A stint in the ICU costs way more then some tourists tax money from purchases.
In Canada, if you win the golden triangle of Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa, the rest of the country can literally go to hell and they won’t care.
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