Canada is cracking down on its vaccine exemption for athletes.
Starting January 15, any unvaccinated professional or amateur athletes will no longer be able to enter Canada, said minister of public safety Marco Mendicino on Friday.
As of right now, NBA and MLB players that have yet to receive one of the country’s approved COVID-19 vaccines are able to come into Canada under a national interest exemption that was made in September of this year. For the NHL, the league acted on its own accord and barred any unvaccinated player from playing in any of their seven cities north of the border.