Juno News - ArriveCAN is here to stay

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