Canadians will soon be able to drive across the U.S. border again. Here’s why that might be a bad idea

WASHINGTON-It just so happened that on the day the U.S. announced that it was finally, after all these months, going to reopen its land border to Canadian travellers, Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland - the Trudeau government's all-purpose handler of important stuff - was in Washington. Standing in a park in front of the White House as anti-pipeline environmentalist protesters shouted behind her, she was asked Wednesday morning about the long-awaited good news for snowbirds, cross-border shoppers, and those who miss their families and friends living in the U.S.