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But you may have HUAD.

I don't believe wearing a portable ionizer around your neck is an effective precaution for Covid-19.

I'm thinking K32682 is a Canadian citizen.

They've since moved the Empress to Victoria on Vancouver Island.

Just so you know, there is not a single train that goes between Vancouver and Halifax; you have to change in Toronto. In any event, that would be quite a trip. Maybe try to fit Ottawa and Montreal into your plans. See viarail.ca for all your planning purposes.

Cruise ships are treated differently and the website steers you in that direction. Note that 'entry by water' is not the same as entry by cruise ship. Entry by water is meant for boats, ferries, canoes, surfboards, etc...

Thank you for your thought provoking insight.

I don't know about fraud but it does seem to be a return to the honour system regarding declarations of health prior to boarding. I guess passengers are just going to have to make their own decisions on how honest they want to be and to what extent they trust other passengers' honesty.

OK. Are you saying that he had to complete ArriveCan to fly domestically?

I don't understand what you mean.

Also popular in Quebec and sections of Eastern Ontario.

As stated inpost #5, just have your Provincial/Canadian record of vaccination on hand. I'm sure you already have it. Here is a sample.... naturally, yours will say Ontario, not Yukon.

How are you planning on crossing the border?

Yes, I stand corrected!

Didn't know that. I'm one of the fortunate souls who hasn't had much opportunity to look into that. I wonder whether Canadian air carriers do it? Getting much of anything out of them for flight disruption, cancellation, delay etc.... can be a bit of a chore!

Sure. Maybe the airlines can stop charging for checked luggage and passengers can cough up a few bucks at their destination depending upon what shows up on the baggage carousel.

Well, that's a pretty laid back view of things. For me, I'd be a little upset to arrive at me destination sans luggage no matter how smooth the trip was.

What is the scary thing to you? The virus or the hysteria? Now I don't know whether you think the virus concern is what people may be considering when deciding what to do or the hysteria has taken over and tainted rational decision-making.

I think it would be easier for me (Canadian) to visit Australia and NZ without having to apply and pay for an electronic travel authorization. I don't have to do it to go to the US or most European countries (at least for now) and really don't see how it would make things any easier for me or US and European authorities to ensure I'm an acceptable visitor by imposing another fee on me. Frankly, I see the proliferation of all these electronic travel authorizations as a knock-on, reciprocity-like cash grab by countries thinly disguised as law and security enforcement measures.

OK. Electronic travel authorities are a means to pre-screen citizens desiring to enter a country under a VWP to ensure they are eligible to enter (under the applicable VWP) and admissible (i.e. they don't pose a law enforcement or security risk).

I never said anything about 'their rules', I only wanted to know why things did not make sense to you. Let me take a stab at why NCL, in their wisdom, changed their protocols. They aren't overly interested in whether passengers may or may not be displaying symptoms, they are more interested in making it easier for people to book and pay for cruises. By abandoning the fully vaccinated requirement this opens things up. Now, vaccinated people may or may not self-assess their fitness to embark the ship and may or may not be entirely honest with themselves and others about whether they should be on the cruise and that's a risk NCL and, apparently, all the passengers will have to assess themselves. The unvaccinated are still required to test beforehand and, I expect, that requirement will soon fall by the wayside if the new protocol works out OK... if it doesn't we'll just have to see what comes out of that.

Why does it not make sense to you?

Why would you think that?

Huh....that one-way to Hawaii would have been good to know. Have a great trip.

Yeah, I know how you feel about this. Unfortunately, it will probably still be a case-by-case assessment for the next little while.