This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Foreign boaters should be careful to follow the rules ahead of the Labour Day long weekend, B.C. Mounties say after an American sailor was fined and forced to turn around for failing to follow COVID-19 legislation.
“We know when long weekends and things of that nature happen … people might take some vacation to enjoy the water. We have our eyes and ears and technology to check that out,” he said in an interview.The warning comes after an American was fined and forced to leave B.C. waters for failing to follow COVID-19 quarantine measures on Aug. 31.
A spokesman for Canada Border Services Agency, which intercepted the vessel along with RCMP, said in a statement that American boaters can enter Canadian waters under certain circumstances. Michaud could not comment on the specifics of the Ucluelet case but said boaters who travel in the waters around B.C. are experienced.
Can't actually be a law. It's a mandate, maybe a recommendation. A law it is not. Sorry, legal logic cannot function in that manner. It's a transgression.