The Premiers are expected to meet next week, to talk more about the potential of reopening to other Maritime provinces again.
PEI Premier Dennis King says he has been chatting with Nova’s Scotia’s Premier Iain Rankin, “We both agreed that we needed to have a conversation with Premier Higgs as well, to just discuss what that could look like. We will obviously take advice from each of the Chief health officers in the provinces.”
King says this is an unnatural state for his province being closed to other provinces, “As we vaccinate more and more Islanders, Atlantic Canadians and Canadians, I expect to be able to relax some of those restrictions that are in place. We will only do that when it is safe to do so under the advice of Dr. Morrison and her colleagues.”
He continues to target mid-April for the reopening of the Maritime or Atlantic bubble, “I have been committed from the beginning that as soon as this is safe to do so, that I would like to reopen to our sister, provinces.”
Nova Scotia’s Premier Iain Rankin says Newfoundland and Labrador would not be included in the initial reopening due to a recent outbreak of the UK variant of COVID-19.
