COVID-19, Saskatoon-based Siemens Transportation says there has been some road bumps on the way, but not nearly as rough as expected.“If someone was to tell me a year ago (about the restrictions), I would have said ‘yeah that border crossing is going to be a big mess.’ And it really hasn’t been,” president Doug Siemens said.“Wait times to get through used to be seven minutes; now it’s about four minutes,” he said as an anecdotal example.
Canada-U.S. border closure to be extended until Mar. 21, Blair says Saskatchewan has 12 land-based border crossing sites staffed by Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) members.