Originally Posted by
Fredd
The
State Department's advice is contradictory:
U.S. auto insurance is accepted as long as an individual is a tourist in Canada. U.S. insurance firms will issue a Canadian insurance card, which should be obtained and carried prior to driving into Canada.
I live near the border and spoke to my insurance agent about it awhile ago. He believed they were absolutely unnecessary and I suggest you can safely follow the State Department's first sentence above rather than the second.
Yikes! I'm in the Northwest, and I never heard anyone mention this before - not my insurance company, AAA, or even when I had CanPass years ago and you had to supply the license number of the vehicle(s) with the decal.
Perhaps this is something to do with commercial travel, or just outdated information that no one wants to risk deleting in case it still applies.