Perhaps an example would help to address your question. A Canadian resident visits, for example, the United States, whether Alaska or Seattle, as described earlier by my colleague, and wants to then, for tourism purposes, visit a different area of Canada. Without these amendments, if they were visiting with a rental vehicle—a foreign-based rental vehicle that was fuel-inefficient—and drove from Alaska to the Yukon Territory, they would be stopped at the border and asked to pay the green levy.
As a result of these amendments, the green levy would not be applied as long as the importation is for tourism or non-commercial purposes, and they would then be leaving Canada within 30 days or the vehicle would be going back within 30 days.