In March, Brian Calder, 80, pulled his Lincoln pickup to a stop at the Boundary Bay checkpoint along the U.S.-Canada border. He was making the 3-mile drive from his home in Point Roberts, Washington to Ladner, British Columbia, where he was scheduled to get surgery on his left eye, which had been damaged by glaucoma.
He knew he was taking a risk trying to get into Canada — the border between the two countries has been closed for nonessential travel since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But Calder has dual-citizenship, and he thought having surgery on a deteriorating optic nerve would qualify as essential travel.
He was wrong.
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