Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last week that his government had agreed with Washington to close the US-Canada border for another 30 days. That means the border is closed to all nonessential travel into the summer. In the Niagara Region, businesses depend on American tourists. But as Anita Elash reports, Canadians there are happy to keep the border closed for now because of fears of the coronavirus.
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