These Canada-U.S. border crossing hours are changing next year. Here’s why

The Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) is changing the hours you tin transverse the borderline astatine dozens of crossings betwixt Canada and the United States, starting adjacent year.

The CBSA said successful a connection Monday that it “intends to set hours of work astatine 35 onshore ports of introduction crossed Canada” starting midnight connected Jan. 6, 2025.

The changes are being brought into effect successful collaboration with the United States, the CBSA said.

“It volition let the CBSA to usage its resources much efficiently by deploying officers astatine busier ports of entry. This volition enactment the CBSA’s quality to process travellers and goods arsenic good arsenic to negociate enforcement activities,” the bureau said successful a statement.

CBSA said the adjustments are based connected “an investigation of operational pressures, highest periods, and services required astatine the ports of entry, to minimize the impacts connected borderline communities.”

The quality comes aft Immigration Minister Marc Miller said past week that the national authorities whitethorn beryllium looking astatine boosting enforcement resources to ace down connected irregular migrants who don’t permission Canada, and addressed the request for communal enforcement of the Safe Third Country Agreement with the U.S.

The authorities has been pressed by absorption parties and provinces connected its plan to adhd further resources astatine the U.S.-Canada borderline successful anticipation of a imaginable summation successful radical seeking to participate Canada from the U.S., wherever president-elect Donald Trump has vowed wide deportations.

Canada’s public information curate told The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson past week that he’s assured successful the enactment of agencies tasked with detaining and removing radical successful the state illegally and preventing information threats crossing into the U.S., but volition boost enforcement resources if necessary.

Dominic LeBlanc says that enactment by the RCMP and CBSA should beryllium to the incoming Donald Trump administration — whose recently appointed “border czar” has called the Canada-U.S. border a “huge nationalist information issue” — that Ottawa shares their concerns astir borderline security.

“I’m precise assured successful the enactment that they tin bash with their American counterparts, and we’ll reassure the American medication that we’re prepared to bash the enactment that’s necessary,” LeBlanc said.

The caller hours of work (in section time) volition beryllium arsenic follows:

Alberta

Del Bonita

Travellers: 9 a.m.  to 5 p.m., 7 days a week

British Columbia

Cascade

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., 7 days a week

Nelway

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., 7 days a week

Manitoba

Cartwright

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 7 days a week

Coulter

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 7 days a week

Commercial:  8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday (except holidays)

Crystal City

Travellers: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 7 days a week

Goodlands

Travellers: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 7 days a week

Gretna

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., 7 days a week

Lena

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 7 days a week

Commercial:  8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday (except holidays)

Piney

Travellers: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 7 days a week

Snowflake

Travellers: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 7 days a week

South Junction

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., 7 days a week

Tolstoi

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., 7 days a week

Windygates

Travellers: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 7 days a week

Winkler

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., 7 days a week

Quebec

Chartierville

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., 7 days a week

Clarenceville

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 7 days a week

Frelighsburg

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Travellers: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., 7 days a week

Herdman

Travellers: 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., 7 days a week

Hereford Road

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., 7 days a week

Highwater

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., 7 days a week

Lacolle Route 221

Travellers: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., 7 days a week

Lacolle Route 223

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., 7 days a week

Noyan

Travellers: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., 7 days a week

Trout River

Travellers: 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., 7 days a week

New Brunswick

Bloomfield

Travellers: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Saturday (except Canadian and U.S. holidays)

Commercial:  9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,  Monday to Friday (except Canadian and U.S. holidays)

Gillespie Portage

Travellers: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., 7 days a week

Fosterville

Travellers (7 days a week):

• 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., past Monday of May to archetypal Monday of September
• 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., remainder of the year

Commercial (7 days a week):

• 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., past Monday of May to archetypal Monday of September
• 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., remainder of the year

St. Croix

Travellers: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 7 days a week

Commercial:  9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday

Saskatchewan

Carievale

Travellers (7 days a week)

• 8 a.m. to  6 p.m., 2nd Sunday of March to archetypal Saturday of November
• 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., remainder of the year

Estevan Highway

Travellers (7 days a week)

• 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.,  2nd Sunday of March to archetypal Saturday of November
• 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.,  remainder of the year

Monchy

Travellers (Monday to Friday)

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,  2nd Sunday of March to archetypal Saturday of November
• 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., remainder of the year

Commercial (Monday to Friday, but holidays)

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 2nd Sunday of March to archetypal Saturday of November
• 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., remainder of the year

Northgate

Travellers (7 days a week)

• 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 2nd Sunday of March to archetypal Saturday of November
• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., remainder of the year

Commercial (Monday to Friday, but holidays)

• 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 2nd Sunday of March to archetypal Saturday of November
• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., remainder of the year

Oungre

Travellers (7 days a week)

• 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., 2nd Sunday of March to archetypal Saturday of November
• 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., remainder of the year

West Poplar River

Travellers (7 days a week)

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 2nd Sunday of March to archetypal Saturday of November
• 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., remainder of the year

Commercial (Monday to Friday, but holidays)

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 2nd Sunday of March to archetypal Saturday of November
• 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., remainder of the year

With files from Global’s Sean Boynton