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The Norwegian Joy alongside the Canada Place terminal in Vancouver. Members of Congress are proposing that Canada allow ships to make port calls without disembarking as a way around the country's big-ship cruise ban. Photo Credit: Tom Stieghorst
The top-ranking members of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure are asking Canada to find a way to allow cruise ships to call at Canadian ports, perhaps by permitting stops without disembarking passengers, to enable an Alaska cruise season this year.
In a letter to Kirsten Hillman, the Canadian ambassador to the U.S., Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) said that Canada's decision to ban cruising through 2022, effectively killing the big-shop Alaska season, puts the livelihoods of tens of thousands of Americans and Canadians "at risk from more job losses and further economic devastation."