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We hypothesized Canadian COVID-19 travel restrictions, including flight bans and enhanced screening, targeting focal source countries where SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Omicron were first identified, were variably effective towards averting introductions and case burden. We conducted a retrospective observational study using all the publicly available SARS-CoV-2 sequences and COVID-19 diagnoses up to March 2022, after which polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing and surveillance sequencing decreased. Average daily variant cases were estimated across global regions and Canadian provinces, which informed subsampling probabilities for sequences for up to 50\u2009000 sequences for VOCs and variants of interest from late 2020 to early 2022. Maximum likelihood phylogeographic methods were used to infer Canadian SARS-CoV-2 sublineages and singletons, representing international viral introductions with and without domestically sampled descendants. Reduction of sublineage and singleton introduction rates and proportional contributions from focal sources were quantified following interventions\u2019 introductions. Sublineages and cases averted via VOC travel restrictions were estimated based on sublineages\u2019 introduction rates and growth characteristics prior to restrictions. Our results suggest that across VOCs subject to targeted travel restrictions, approximately 995 (841\u20131151) introductions may have been prevented, accounting for an averted burden of 971\u2009371 (321\u2009204\u20131\u2009004\u2009575) cases, 10\u2009685 (3533\u201311\u2009050) hospitalizations, and 561 (185\u2013580) deaths, largely accounted for by the Delta-related India flight ban. However, these estimates represent an upper bound of effectiveness if any assumptions were violated, including that introductions can be treated as independent when susceptibility is high, averted introductions mirror characteristics of observed introductions, and that travel restrictions caused sustained changes in travel behaviour. Travel restrictions were most effective when implemented rapidly following variant emergence, during exponential case growth in the focal source country, and concurrent with limited domestic and global circulation. 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