Originally Posted by YYZ1313

Official changes starting Feb 28th:

Rapid antigen tests will be accepted for entry into Canada if taken within 24 hours before departure. Tests with online supervision will be accepted.
Eligible travellers leaving Canada and returning within 72 hours won't need to provide a test.
No more mandatory arrival testing. Travellers may be randomly selection upon arrival for testing but won't be required to quarantine.
Free rapid tests will be given to arriving travellers but they're to be used on a voluntary basis.
Fully vaccinated children under 12 won't need to avoid high-risk settings anymore (school, camp, etc.)
Global travel advisory will be lifted.

Originally Posted by D404

It doesn't seem particularily wise to be posting about blatantly breaking federal law, even if you think you're anonymous (you are less so than you think) or that it won't be followed up on. As noted above, never underestimate how stuff can come back to haunt you.

Originally Posted by J. Leslie

CUN-YYC. Arrive and get ‘randomly selected’. Third time in three. Proceed through baggage and CBSA exit. Find the testing folks ar the end of the line. Tell them, politely, to p*ss off. Proceed to parking lot. Arrive home. Bottom line: don’t play their COVID Theatre. In case anyone is wondering, I’m triple vaxxed

Originally Posted by PetrozzaFam

I tried doing the exact same yesterday at Pearson. I had a long conversation with a police officer who actually told me she agrees with me and does not condone anything that they are doing at the airport with regards to testing post arrival. She would not let me leave however unless I took a ticket for $6000 or did a test. And when I told her that no one would pay that ticket she said I am exactly right no one pays the ticket. But I figured if I’m going to fight or file to fight a ticket in court or do a Covid test I’m participating in their theatre either way. So I did the test but caused a bit of a ruckus and I think that’s what more people need to do so that they eventually get fed up and drop all the BS

Originally Posted by MartiniGomez

You could take an online antigen test with eg Klarity in DOH. They work from 8 - 20 European time, also during weekends. Costs are eur 10 or 20 don't know exactly. Results with certificate back within 30 minutes. Used this for a recent trip to US and very happy to be able to use this for a trip to Canada in March!

Originally Posted by LondonElite

I was thinking this as well, but the problem might be that if this is all on one ticket, there may be a refused boarding situation at the first airport because the requirement can’t be met. But as posted above, I suspect the 72 hour PCR test will still be accepted.

Originally Posted by LondonElite

I was thinking this as well, but the problem might be that if this is all on one ticket, there may be a refused boarding situation at the first airport because the requirement can’t be met. But as posted above, I suspect the 72 hour PCR test will still be accepted.

Originally Posted by flying_pig

Thank you sydneyracquelle! Would you or anyone else have any link to written legislation around this? I just want to make sure I am covering all angles as I am a little paranoid on being caught doing something that contravenes the regulations. It seems to be the same as the UK, where one is always able to stop quarantine/isolation for the purpose of leaving the country. This is well documented in the paperwork in UK, but have not been able to find this online yet for Canada.

...and if anyone has any recent experiences of the percentage of passengers selected for arrival testing in YVR, that would also be interesting to know. It is hard to decipher the real situation, with some news outlets reporting testing close to 100% of arrivals, but anecdotal evidence from friends and colleagues suggesting it's much less. I will be coming from the US, but would have been to other countries in the days prior so from what I read flying from US doesn't really help.

Originally Posted by hoipolloi

This bolded rule is already in effect.

What I'd like to see happen is children under 5 year old (too young to be vaccinated) be allowed to return to daycare after a reduced period or after negative test, not after 14 days as it's currently the case. Here in Quebec, isolation has been reduced to 5 days for kids who attend daycare and there's no isolation for kids if their classmate/teacher catches COVID but kid doesn't have symptoms

Originally Posted by Adam Smith

I find it interesting how much certainty there seems to be in this thread about what the new rules are going to be, given nothing has yet been announced.

Originally Posted by Adam Smith

I find it interesting how much certainty there seems to be in this thread about what the new rules are going to be, given nothing has yet been announced.

Originally Posted by EmailKid

Certain poster seems to have 100%, or very close to it, accuracy when making predictions

Originally Posted by Yul_voyager

Just out on the cbc website

Originally Posted by _billy_

just a matter of time
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