A meeting with Ontario mayors from border cities and the public safety minister suggests travel restrictions on the southern border may ease by the end of June.
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OTTAWA, ON, May 27, 2021 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada is committed to addressing new and emerging threats to national security, including those posing risks to intellectual property intensive businesses, access to innovative technologies and sensitive research, and any other economic-based threats to the safety and prosperity of Canadians.
Public Safety Canada s Economic Security Task Force is leading an interdepartmental policy review examining what, if any, additional measures are needed to ensure Canada s continued ability to respond to the economic-based threats to national security now and in the future. Potential threats include the loss of sensitive goods, technology and intellectual property, the malicious use of sensitive personal information of Canadians, and compromised critical infrastructure, not to mention the economic and financial toll and opportunity costs.
James Cudmore, director of communications for Canadian Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair, didn t confirm the report to The Hill, but said the measures have been in place for more than a year and have been modified and strengthened over time to keep our communities safe from COVID-19. Alongside our counterparts abroad, we have extended the current measures until May 21, 2021, and they could be extended again.
ADVERTISEMENT As Minster Bill Blair has said, until we can be assured, based on the advice that we receive from our public health officials and our evaluation of those conditions is such that we believe that those restrictions can be lifted safely, we ll keep them in place, Cudomore continued. I expect the government will have more to say on this matter in the days ahead.