🇨🇦 CBSA grants third extension to remote border crossing permits used mostly by Americans

Third extension in less than a year, and the grand replacement still is not fully launched. That is the modern Canadian state in one neat little package: scrap a working system, promise a sleek new compliance machine, then keep extending the old one because the bureaucrats are not ready for their own overhaul. As reported, the CBSA now pushes the Remote Area Border Crossing Program to Nov. 30, 2026 while insisting phone reporting will deliver a consistent level of security. Right. Security by call centre.

The real story is the managerial instinct to centralize, standardize, and regulate every inch of the border while pretending this is mere efficiency. The change hits a system used mostly by Americans, 90 per cent of roughly 11,000 members, but the habit is broader than that: replace local practicality with remote permission, then funnel frequent travelers into NEXUS, another pre-approved gatekeeping scheme jointly run with U.S. authorities. Sovereignty in the Trudeau era always seems to mean more bureaucracy for normal people and more integration for the administrative class.

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