Originally Posted by
yvrcnx
An organization called "Canadian Travel & Tourism Roundtable" has been trying to open up tourism since June without any success, even with the National Airlines Council of Canada promoting this as well.
https://time-to-travel.ca/
Currently Canada is not even open domestically to each other with all of the Atlantic Provinces and 2 of the Northern Territories being off limit to the rest of Canada.
I wouldn't be surprised if this stays the way for the rest of the year.
The approach here seems to be very similar to the one of New Zealand and Australia, 2 other commonwealth countries, with the difference that we are at least allowed to leave Canada but have to self-isolate for 2 weeks upon returning.
Kiwis can leave, it's only Australians that cannot. I expect that restriction will be lifted in the next couple of months, with the caveat that you will have to pay for your own quarantine upon re-entry into the country. The outward travel ban was introduced before the hotel quarantine system was in place. No one really cared initially because no one was wanting to go overseas, but as things settle down more people are wanting to leave the country. Self isolation is a total non-starter here.
The joy of federalism really is the states (provinces) all shutting borders with each other. Western Australia is flat out refusing to open borders to any other states, even the Northern Territory which hasn't had a case since March. The border closures are wildly popular though, so unless someone takes a challenge to the High Court I don't see them being relaxed.