Premier Dwight Ball says the province has not yet been served but says the Health and Justice departments are "prepared to enter a response."

Kim Taylor and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association claim the restrictions violate the charter and fall outside provincial jurisdiction.

Ron Foxcroft of the Fluke Transportation Group says moving transport trucks into the U.S. is no problem -- getting back is a little different, though.

The border between Canada and the U.S. will be temporarily closed to non-essential traffic, U.S. President Donald Trump announced in a tweet on Wednesday.

Sweeping travel restrictions imposed in China in an attempt to control the coronavirus appear to have only modestly delayed the virus' spread, a study has found.

Some of those affected are close relatives of refugees who are already in the U.S., while others are from 11 countries, including Egypt, Iran and Somalia, that Trump singled out, citing security reasons.

CBP has previously denied that there were any directives issued to deny entry to the U.S, but wouldn't confirm whether a directive to question and detain certain travellers existed.

The announcement comes as Trump tries to promote his administration's crackdown on immigration.

"It's such a hoax," Trump said of the impeachment case against him. "I think it's so bad for our country."

The expanded ban could cover several countries that were included when Donald Trump announced the first iteration of the ban by executive order but were later removed amid rounds of litigation.