I originally planned my entry into Canada 15 days after my vaccine, then Air Canada cancelled my flight and rescheduled me one day earlier so I will enter 14 days after vaccine; the flight one day later rather than one day earlier was fully booked. I thought this was no big deal because I read many from many sources that the rule is "at least 14 days". However now I have just come across this "example" on the travel.gc.ca website:
if your last dose was anytime on Thursday July 1st, then Friday July 16th would be the first day that you meet the 14 day condition
I guess they want to account for the possibility that someone could have had the vaccine late July 1st or perhaps in a completely different time zone, but this kind of accounting does not seem entirely aligned with the statement "
have received your last dose at least 14 days prior to the day you enter Canada". Unfortunately, at the risk of stating the obvious it's not my own opinion which is going to matter in the end.
Given what you know and what you have seen of border agents in the last few weeks, if I show a "semi-proof" that my vaccine was early morning not late afternoon, how much leeway do they have to let this slide? Or do you think they will follow the example by the book, no exceptions? When I say semi-proof, what I mean is that I have an e-mail receipt confirming that the vaccine was done with time stamp 9am, so obviously that would imply the vaccine was done that morning sometime before 9am. But it's just an e-mail, not a hardcopy document.
It would be harsh to force hotel quarantine to someone who had the vaccine 14 days ago, when only one week later (August 9th) someone without the vaccine would not have to quarantine in a hotel because the program is being scrapped.
Unfortunately I enter in YYZ so the stories of people just walking away from YYC and YUL and ignoring rules without consequence would not apply.