Keep it closed

Re: Tourism sector anxious

"A better use of resources, Judas said, could be to start to allow non-essential travel across the Canada-U.S. border and put in place a program that screens those who cross it by land for COVID-19. That border has been closed to leisure travellers since March, despite leisure travellers from around the globe being free to enter Canada, and B.C., by air."

I am amazed at the short sighted, selfish attitude of Walt Judas, the highest COVID death and case numbers in the world are in the U.S. right now and you want to open the borders?

A few months will be tough on tourism, but the governments both federal and provincial are helping and I can't believe that you would risk me and my family and so many others for a few tourist dollars. The sights will still be here when we get through this and the tourists will be increased as everyone will want to travel to make up for lost time in their lives.

They have just announced the shortages of vaccines and lack of supplies until March and longer, and you want to let more people in? Where are they going to isolate? Who will pay for that? Who will pay for the monitoring?

Sometimes have to wonder where these officials get their credentials.

Gloria Taylor