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Originally Posted by Urban Peasant
3 boxes of 216 count King Cole tea or is more than enough to last an entire year or even more in our household. If I could get one box of King Cole and 1-2 boxes of Red Rose (Canadian packaging) or Tetley's I'll be content. Add to that a few boxes of Peak Freans biscuits and my afternoon will be all set. Besides, with luggage on a road trip how am I supposed to fit so many additional parcels? Anyways this can happen only after the borders reopen and Canada feels comfortable enough to welcome Americans again. I just hope Canada does not start implementing visas or unexpectedly turn people away at the borders to control the number of Americans coming in.
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You wouldn't have a problem with your tea or cookies. Currently, the only restrictions on purchases seem to be things like toilet paper (one package, any size, per customer) and hand sanitizer. And even those are coming back into good supply. Yes, some things are still sparse on the shelves, but they're not restricted--so Heinz baked beans, Campbell's canned soups, and fresh ground beef are hit-and-miss; but they are not restricted. Similarly, you can buy as many boxes of teabags, and Peek Frean's cookies as you like. Note that restrictions on purchases are established by the retailer; they are not laid down by the government, so if the retailer says that you cannot get three boxes of tea at one store, go down the street to another store.
As for Canada requiring visas for Americans, I highly doubt that will ever happen. Our two countries rely on each other's visitors far too much. Putting another roadblock in the way of casual and tourist visits each way would add yet more calamity to our respective economies once the border restrictions are lifted. Or, to put it another way: I'd like to visit Glacier National Park in Montana some day--it's not far from here, and would be a nice daytrip--but I'm not willing to mail my passport to Calgary (or drive a few hours to Calgary) to get a visa in order to do so. I can just as easily go to Waterton, on the Canadian side of the border, just across from Glacier NP, and spend my dollars in Waterton, rather than in the US. The mountains are just as scenic.
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