CBC News · Posted: Oct 18, 2020   
      
   Canada-U.S. border closure extended but Trump, Trudeau far apart on next steps   
      
   Trudeau and Trump are worlds apart on the Canada-U.S. border closure   
      
   Although Canada and the U.S. have agreed to close their shared land border to   
   non-essential travel, they don't appear to agree on several related issues —   
   including what to do next.   
      
   More than seven months after the border closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic,   
   Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump have offered up   
   contradictory messages about the border's future.   
      
   The Canada-U.S. border closure agreement was set to expire on Oct. 21, but the   
   Canadian government announced on Monday that the closure will be extended   
   until at least Nov. 21.   
      
   In an interview last Wednesday on Winnipeg podcast The Start, Trudeau said   
   Canada plans to keep the border closed as long as COVID-19 case counts in the   
   U.S. remain high.   
      
   "We keep extending the border closures because the United States is not in a   
   place where we would feel comfortable reopening those borders," he said.   
      
   Four weeks prior, Trump offered a different prognosis for the Canada-U.S.   
   border closure.   
      
   "We're looking at the border with Canada — Canada would like it open," he   
   said at the White House on Sept. 18.   
      
   "So we're gonna be opening the borders pretty soon.... We want to get back to   
   normal business."   
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