I'd like to explain my post a bit further - it was a heads up to those traveling through BC and carrying their guns. It was not meant to be an attack on Canada - just a warning about the system as it is operating under the threat of the Virus.
I think the crossing from Washington State to BC has been somewhat difficult for years, at least since 1999 when Ahmed Ressam, the space-needle wanna-be bomber, came in from Victoria with the bombs. When the Milan mosque that supported the Bosnian Jihadist battalion was rolled up in 1994, a lot of the radicals moved from Italy to Vancouver - which by 1996 was called "Milan West." After 1999 the US side tightened - Canadians responded. This mutual occasional tit-for-tat has been compounded by the shut-down of the border by the Virus.
Son talked repeatedly to the Canadian immigration service before departing and was told that entry was entirely up to the individual immigration office/officer he would deal with. He absolutely had to be in Alaska by mid-June. The only way to get his gear there was to transit BC and Yukon....no other way to go without the maritime highway. So to be on the safe side, he left the shotgun at home...not wanting to provoke. They got provoked anyway. He was the only person trying to cross the border at that time so maybe they were just bored.
Anyway, everybody he saw on the route up-country was carrying so it wasn't necessarily an anti-gun thing .... just a problem with the immigration service. He made it but the race through Yukon with a fully loaded truck was sort of a cannon-ball run.
As mentioned, he speaks native French and has never had a problem entering Quebec.
In Alaska back in the USSA: