The owner of a cross-border water taxi service has been told that under Canadian rules, his boat must come and go from a ferry terminal — not exactly an ideal fit for a 23-foot vessel on no fixed schedule
He thought he had all the permissions he needed, from both sides of the border, to launch a water taxi service from Sidney to San Juan Island in Washington state.
Why, he wants to know, can Canadian authorities not accommodate him in the same way the Americans do?Arsenault has owned Bay-to-Bay Charters since 2019. You might remember him from 2020 when, with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle holed up in North Saanich, he made the news for turning down the $150-an-hour business of a Japanese TV crew that had wanted to film the couple’s waterfront estate from offshore.
Then came January’s course correction. CBSA told Arsenault that under its rules, his water taxi counted as a ferry, and therefore was not eligible to use its report-by-phone locations. He needed to arrive at a site designated for ferries. Even if the terminal were open, Arsenault figures his business, which operates a small craft not on a schedule but when needed by clients, isn’t a good fit in an operation designed for a football-field-long ferry on a fixed timetable.
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