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[*]A person who enters Canada for the purpose of receiving essential medical services or treatments within 36 hours of entering Canada, other than services or treatments related to COVID-19
If they are using "essential" in sort of the same sense as has happened for medical procedures that have been getting categorized as "elective" when US and Canadian medical facilities have cut back on service due to Covid-19 concerns, the "essential medical services"-based exemption may turn out differently than expected by some.