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Note that unvaccinated Canadians are still allowed to enter Canada, the same as since the start. But there is no special exemption to the mandatory vaccination rule to catch a connecting flight or long-distance train. For those who prefer a simple step-by-step summary and have not yet read our ultimate guide to pandemic travel. But also, for safety, a molecular test could easily be accepted as an alternative. And thus be just as much of a risk than unvaccinated travelers who would be tested.
That could be debated well, in a hypothetical world where a rational debate was still possible. Of course, you can also just wait for the end of the requirement: Apparently, the measure is temporary to be confirmed.
This option is now back May after months of being paused. Yes, there is a little-known way to fly out of Canada without being vaccinated. So basically, you need to drive all across the country to Newfoundland vaccination is not required for that ferry and then you need to take another ferry to Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the French territory. Remember: the vaccination requirement only applies when departing from a Canadian airport and does not apply to passengers transiting in a Canadian airport.
So from Saint-Pierre FSP , based on the rules, you can book a pretty expensive flight to a country that does not require vaccination, via a Canadian airport. The cheapest option these days seems to be London, in the UK. What the government rules say is that you could fly to a remote community without being vaccinated, the airline will even provide a free test for you to do so.
Then, you can fly from a remote community to anywhere in Canada with that same test. For example, if you live in Montreal and want to fly to Vancouver, you could fly Montreal to Kuujjuaq and then Kuujjuaq to Vancouver, since flying to and from a remote community is allowed without being vaccinated. Transport Canada media relations confirmed this is only allowed to fly within Canada, not internationally.
What is clear is that this is not very practical, and certainly not very affordable in most cases. But it is possible at least if you want to fly within Canada. Flytrippers will always encourage international travel first, for the culture shock and the lower cost. But there is no entry requirement to enter many provinces by car, even without being vaccinated. Also, travel by bus is not included in this new requirement.
Private flights are exempt from the vaccination requirement, as long as they do not use the secure zone of a commercial airport. It is prohibitively expensive, but perhaps a new cheaper private flight service will develop for unvaccinated Canadians.
If there is demand, the market always provides as they say unless of course government regulation disrupts market forces, as it often loves to do. Some readers are trying to organize private flights, you can check out the comments section below. Note that since entering Canada is allowed, you would just need to use a private plane for the outbound journey and not the return.
That would at least somewhat reduce the cost. But it is possible to go around the USA by boat to get to countries that are open to unvaccinated Canadians. You can read the comments at the end of this article for a few testimonials, but it seems pretty hard to take advantage of these exemptions.
Your best bet seems to be to hope that one of the foreign airlines serving Canada accepts your request for an exemption, as some seem to be more lenient based on those same comments. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Flytrippers always repeats the same thing: follow all the rules.
Even those that make no sense like this one. As the reference for travel, we have to recommend following all the rules. So yes, in practice you could maybe travel this way. And to be clear, all testimonials indicate that they always ask if you are vaccinated. So this would involve lying to US customs agents. Their official websites do not mention this. Maybe a bit more patience is the solution. The polls about support for most restrictions are pretty terrible in the USA, so maybe their vaccination requirement will end in the lead-up to their midterm elections.
That way you could leave Canada by land while following all the rules and you could return any way you like since entering Canada is always allowed for Canadians, regardless of your medical status. No connection. You only had 2 steps to travel since the beginning of the pandemic, as explained in the ultimate guide to pandemic travel :. It was simple. Flytrippers has been telling you since literally day 1 after the press conference in August that this new rule will apply to all flights departing from a Canadian airport.
Well, even several major media outlets wrote articles in a way that seems to have been confusing from the beginning….
The vaccination requirement only applies to large vessels whose itineraries are over 24 hours in duration. Rules for the resumption of cruise ship travel in Canada for the Spring of are in the process of being developed.
The most important thing to understand about travel rules is that each country makes its own rules and they vary greatly: Nothing is harmonized. Any proof in English or French is accepted or with a certified translation , whether it is a paper or digital version. I share a detailed post about the experience , as my recent flight to Louisiana was my first time flying with a requirement just to board the plane itself, after 41 flights during the pandemic where the only requirements were those imposed by my destinations.
As mentioned, passengers transiting through Canada by air, whether they are Canadians or foreigners, do not need to be vaccinated or even tested. This exemption is what actually what created the lesser-known but impractical way for unvaccinated Canadians to fly out of the country that I mentioned earlier…. This exemption not only allows avoiding the vaccination requirement but also avoiding the test as an alternative.
At least when departing from northern airports. When departing towards a northern airport, the tests are provided free of charge at the airport! They did not give any details. In fact, this exemption is only listed on the French language site, not on the English site.
Could leaving Canada end up being included as an emergency trip? Many legal experts doubt that preventing people from leaving a country is even doable, so this would be one way to allow it.
To be continued. No additional details are provided by the government. In fact, they offloaded the issue to airlines.
Maybe some of them will be less strict than others…. Provided they entered before October 30, unvaccinated foreign nationals only vaccinated foreign nationals can enter for tourism since September 7, but there were plenty of various exemptions throughout the pandemic that still exist will be able to leave without being vaccinated. So depending on the criteria that are still unknown can you just provide any address in another country? Finally, this is the only part of this whole requirement that has a known end date: The exemption for foreigners is until February After that, they will no longer be allowed to fly either and will be imprisoned here apparently assuming there are no legal challenges.
They still do not need a test to board a plane, just like since day one. On the other hand, now that Health Canada has made children eligible for the vaccine, it may become a requirement for them too very quickly, but nothing has been announced about that.
There will almost certainly be at least a 4 month grace period, if not more. Please note that the quarantine exemption for unvaccinated children who enter Canada applies for those under 12 precisely, not 12 and 4 months.
The principle is easy to understand. You can read our ultimate guide of travel rules for children. Trudeau liked to score political points with this measure during his useless and cynical election campaign, saying that it was absolutely vital to implement this. If they really wanted to protect everyone on board their flights, they would also impose mandatory testing since the science seems to say that even vaccinated people can transmit the virus….
And most importantly, they would stop unvaccinated foreigners from being allowed on flights to and from Canada without even being tested for transits. Who knows. In any case, Flytrippers will continue to keep you informed of all the details as soon as they are announced. That day we had said it was a useless election, but with the results being almost identical to the previous parliament, our apologies: It was extremely useless is what we should have said instead. On October 1, then Health Minister Patty Hajdu reconfirmed in a press conference that the end of October timeline still stood, but no details were provided.
On October 6, most details about this measure were officially announced, including the grace period. On November 30, the grace period that allowed for a molecular test to be presented instead of proof of vaccination and that allowed airlines to not even verify any of the 2 ended quietly without any other announcements. The requirement to be vaccinated to board a plane departing from a Canadian airport is now in effect since November 30th, Canada might possibly be the only country in the world with such an extreme rule—or at the very least one of the very few.
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