America asking Canada to allow Alaska-bound cruise ships to make “technical” stops at Victoria in order to satisfy the U.S. Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886 (PVSA) shows “the abominable nature of protectionism: given time to work, it makes otherwise illogical economic distortions permanent facts of life, ones on which workers and communities genuinely depend. Wasteful procedures and moronic legal fictions become irreformable,” Colby Cosh wrote in a National Post column. The PVSA outlaws uninterrupted travel between U.S. ports by “foreign vessels” - any ship flying under some other country’s flag, as nearly all cruise ships do. Companies offering Alaska cruises have gotten around the law by making stops in Canadian ports. But now that Canada has banned cruises in its waters until 2022, it’s complicating matters for Alaska sailings.
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