Numbers provided by the government to demonstrate how easily travellers have adopted the ArriveCan application to enter Canada are “absolutely false,” according to a border guard union representative.
The representative, along with government officials and industry stakeholders, was testifying before the Standing Committee on International Trade on June 15, in a study on the impacts of ArriveCan on certain sectors.
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) vice-president Denis Vinette said the app had a very high usage rate.
“We’ve had a successful traveller usage rate. As of May 2, [2022], over 99 percent of travellers in the air mode used ArriveCan and 94 percent used it in the land mode,” Vinette told the committee….