During a tour of a customs checkpoint in Windsor, Ont. On Tuesday, Mendicino said the ArriveCan app – the COVID-19 control tool that border town mayors have asked the government to abolish – could be a useful technology going forward. “ArriveCan was originally created for the purpose of COVID-19, but it has the technological capability beyond that to really reduce the time it takes to conduct a border check,” he said. “So the vision is to really use the platform to cut down on time so that CBSA officers can really focus on problem areas, like if you’re trying to smuggle guns or drugs.” The app was introduced during the pandemic to allow travelers to report their travels and their vaccination status. Ottawa requires travelers to use the ArriveCan or mobile app desktop versionto submit their travel and health information related to COVID-19 before arriving in Canada. Travelers who do not can afford it 14-day quarantine and even a $ 5,000 fine. Border city mayors say the tool is a barrier for tourists entering Canada and for trade.
The leader says the application should be removed
Some native people also have problems with this. “We have problems with ArriveCan,” Walpole Island First Nation chief Charles Samson told CBC News. “Specifically, our people in many cases do not have the technology to download the application and do not have the necessary iPhones to go back and forth with them on their travels in the United States.” Walpole Island First Nation chief Charles Sampson said the ArriveCAN app was a barrier for those in his community to cross the border. (Dale Molnar / CBC) Sampson said he attended a meeting Tuesday morning with the secretary’s office, saying he told them directly to drop the application for his community and all Canadians. “As for the Jay Treaty [an agreement signed in 1794 by the U.K. and the U.S.]”One of the articles there says we have free access to cross the border undisturbed,” Sampson told Mendicino at the annual Jay Treaty Border Alliance conference in Windsor and Detroit this week. . “We recognize and interpret it in modern terms to go across borders to do our jobs and return to Canada without the obstacles and technological problems we face.” Sampson said he believes the application is “unnecessary” and “unnecessary”. Mendicino said his government is working to streamline technology. He said he was “responding” to border mayors and stakeholders and had been made available to address their concerns. The Canadian Border Services HCV mobile vehicle is used to x-ray the contents of entire trucks, without removing all the goods inside. (Dale Molnar / CBC) Medicino was in Windsor to advertise his government’s new gun control legislation, the Bill C-21. He saw a demonstration in Windsor of technologies used by Canadian Border Services (CBSA) officers in an effort to seize illegal firearms and goods from entering the country. The technologies included a detector dog and a vehicle that can carry X-ray trucks. “One of the ways we can ensure that travelers have a smooth border experience is by introducing technologies like the one you saw here,” Mendicino told reporters who followed the show. “So if you can scan a truck in minutes versus hours, you really save time, you save resources, so we can keep more support and staff for those returning volumes.”
The customs officer union requires thousands more hires
Mendicino’s comments come a day after the union representing customs officials criticized the CBSA for not hiring enough staff to cover the shortfalls during a busy travel period and asked the agency to hire 1,000 to 3,000 more employees. “With no visible end to the delays affecting travelers at airports and border crossings across the country, it is clear that the Canadian Border Services (CBSA) has no plans to bring travel back on track soon,” said the Customs Union. Immigration. released on Monday. The federal government is trying to respond to scenes of endless queues, flight delays and daily airport riots, a problem that the aviation industry – and now the unions – blame for the lack of federal security and customs agents. “Summer is a time, it is not an emergency. We do not understand how the situation we are in now was not entirely predictable and was not dealt with before we reached such a desperate situation,” said union president Mark Weber. The Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ont., Is shown in this archive photo. The head of the union representing CBSA employees said waiting times at air and land borders were increasing in the midst of a busy summer travel season. (Carlos Osorio / The Associated Press) Congestion is on the rise despite the volume of passengers on land crossings and airport customs, which are about three-quarters of the level before the pandemic, Weber said. Land checkpoints are not exempt from delays affecting Canada’s largest airports, with “significant waiting times” at busy crossings, he added. “In our busiest ports, somewhere like Windsor, it is not uncommon to see waiting times of two, three hours for cars to pass.” The CBSA said it has more staff and student officers, along with additional automated kiosks in Toronto’s busy Pearson Airport customs area. “In response to recent delays in increasing spring and summer travel, the CBSA is making significant additional efforts and resources to plan and prepare for various peak periods. Significant analysis is being done to address the need for resources. which should address the predicted trends and patterns, “Audrey Champoux, a spokeswoman for the Secretary of Public Safety, said in an email.
