Today (Friday August 13 2021) the Government of Canada announced that:
Starting soon, all commercial air travellers and passengers on interprovincial trains and large marine vessels with overnight accommodations (such as cruise ships) will have to be vaccinated, Alghabra said. He said accommodations will be made for "those few who are unable to be vaccinated," such as testing and screening.
"Vaccine requirements in the transportation sector will help protect the safety of employees, their families, passengers, their communities and all Canadians. And more broadly, it will hasten Canada's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic," he said.
Asked when these measures would take effect, Alghabra said the government is developing "a measured and practical approach to requiring vaccines in these sectors as quickly as possible."
See CBC News [other media are also reporting]: Federal government to require vaccinations for all federal public servants, air and train passengers https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-mandatory-vaccinations-1.6140131
Although the specific implications are not yet known as the regulations are not in public or in place, presumably this will affect commercial flights within and to/from Canada, as well as cruises which depart from Canadian ports or stop at Canadian ports [note that cruises are not allowed in Canadian waters until November 2021].
For DCL cruises, the primary impacts will be:
- Canadian residents (and others) cruisers flying to/from/through Canada to get to their cruise
- DCL's Alaska season, which sails from Vancouver, which is scheduled to restart summer 2022
- the small number of cruises DCL has that sail to Eastern Canada
- sometimes TA cruises will stop in a Canadian port
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Starting soon, all commercial air travellers and passengers on interprovincial trains and large marine vessels with overnight accommodations (such as cruise ships) will have to be vaccinated, Alghabra said. He said accommodations will be made for "those few who are unable to be vaccinated," such as testing and screening.
"Vaccine requirements in the transportation sector will help protect the safety of employees, their families, passengers, their communities and all Canadians. And more broadly, it will hasten Canada's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic," he said.
Asked when these measures would take effect, Alghabra said the government is developing "a measured and practical approach to requiring vaccines in these sectors as quickly as possible."
See CBC News [other media are also reporting]: Federal government to require vaccinations for all federal public servants, air and train passengers https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-mandatory-vaccinations-1.6140131
Although the specific implications are not yet known as the regulations are not in public or in place, presumably this will affect commercial flights within and to/from Canada, as well as cruises which depart from Canadian ports or stop at Canadian ports [note that cruises are not allowed in Canadian waters until November 2021].
For DCL cruises, the primary impacts will be:
- Canadian residents (and others) cruisers flying to/from/through Canada to get to their cruise
- DCL's Alaska season, which sails from Vancouver, which is scheduled to restart summer 2022
- the small number of cruises DCL has that sail to Eastern Canada
- sometimes TA cruises will stop in a Canadian port
SW
