Juno News - ArriveCAN is here to stay

The government wants you to log all of your details on a tracking app so they can keep track of who you are and what you are doing in your own country. If you don't do this, you will be fined. The government wants to integrate this tracking app with customs and border control.

00:00:00.320 arrive can is here to stay and the government hasn't admitted this the government hasn't

00:00:05.200 acknowledged it last week omar al-ghabar who's the transport minister talked about all the things

00:00:09.840 they're doing with arrive can and if you look at it it's clear it's not going away this thing that

00:00:15.600 was brought in simply for covid is now becoming a permanent fixture where if you want to enter your

00:00:21.200 own country you have to log all your details on this app and get a little passcode that you can

00:00:26.880 give to the border officer and if you don't you will be fined so jean-yve de clo he said arrive can's

00:00:33.360 working arrive can's actually making it quicker for people to go through the customs lines that's

00:00:38.400 what he says arrive can's actually making things easier so i've used arrive can a number of times

00:00:43.840 you have to when you're coming back into the country or you get fined and it used to be about

00:00:48.240 you just log all your information and now what they're trying to do and this is what omar al-ghabar

00:00:53.040 was talking about last week they're trying to integrate it with your customs clearing so the

00:00:57.920 questions that you have to answer do you have any fruit and vegetables have you been to a farm stuff

00:01:02.400 like that is now going to be part of arrive can so what the government gets with arrive can is

00:01:08.480 advanced knowledge of those who are coming to canadian borders it's supposed to be as a canadian

00:01:14.480 citizen you're supposed to be able to show up at a canadian border and say here's my canadian

00:01:18.320 passport let me in and that's enough because the government cannot deny you entry to your own

00:01:23.680 country but they can make your life miserable and they can fine you and this is what they're doing

00:01:28.240 right now they're saying oh yeah if you come in as a canadian and you haven't an arrive can we'll let

00:01:32.400 you in but we're going to make you pay like five thousand dollars for the privilege of entering your

00:01:37.360 own country without using the government's creepy arrive can tracking app and the reason i bring this up

00:01:45.200 is because there should not be barriers to enter your own country so this is now becoming an electronic

00:01:52.960 travel authorization for canadians to go into their own country an eta is what you're supposed

00:02:00.720 to get when you travel to a foreign country and now we're effectively making canadians do this for

00:02:07.280 themselves and it means that when you go through and you scan your passport or your nexus card they

00:02:12.560 already have all of your information because you had to log it ahead of time on the app because i've

00:02:16.640 had people say well they aren't even asking for my arrive can at the border after i've gone through

00:02:20.320 the effort of doing it they don't need to because you're already in their system and it's linked to

00:02:24.800 your passport or nexus card so when they swipe those all of these things that you put in come up

00:02:30.000 and yeah it makes things very convenient if you're the border officer

00:02:34.400 but what purpose does it serve for a canadian coming through

00:02:43.440 so

00:03:00.960 so

Juno News - July 05, 2022

ArriveCAN is here to stay

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