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Huge Drop In Border Crossings In NWO

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A mere fraction of the people who usually cross the border in northwestern Ontario are now being permitted to enter Canada.

Data released by Statistics Canada Acadia Broadcasting shows 531 US residents and 1,483 Canadians passed through customs in Fort Frances last month.

Another 157 Americans and 1,008 Canadians entered at Rainy River.

The border is closed to non-essential travel, but US citizens can still enter Canada for ‘essential’ reasons as deemed appropriate by Canada Customs.

In June 2019, the Fort Frances border saw 95-thousand people cross. This included 34,370 Canadians and 60,545 US residents.

In the same month, the border at Rainy River had 19,548 Canadians and 11,989 Americans crossing.

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Green Party Leader Resigns Leadership, Remains MP

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Elizabeth May has stepped down as leader of the Green Party of Canada.

The MP for Saanich-Gulf islands will stay on as caucus leader in the House of Commons.

May became the first Green Party member to be elected to parliament in 2011.

She says she wants to spend more time with her family and now was the right time to make the move.

“I want to make sure that when I leave as leader of the Green Party of Canada we’ve got momentum, we’ve got growth, we’ve got exciting leadership, and I know we will have all of these.”

May brought the number of Green MPs to three in the last election as she is joined by Paul Manly from BC and the first Atlantic Green MP in Jenica Atwin of Fredricton.

Halifax’s Jo-Ann Roberts will be acting leader until the party holds a vote in PEI in 2020.