The head of a union representing Canada’s customs and immigration officers says chronic staffing shortages mean long waits at the border won’t necessarily disappear when use of the controversial ArriveCan app soon becomes optional.
Mark Weber, national president of the Customs and Immigration Union, warns that if travel volumes start to increase substantially there will be “significant delays” at Canada’s border points. Weber spoke at a House of Commons committee looking at the ArriveCan app for providing travel and public health information before and after people enter Canada.
The cabinet order mandating vaccine mandates at the border and the use of ArriveCan for incoming travellers expires on Friday and the government says it will not be renewed.He urges the government to hire more staff to keep goods and people flowing across the border, not rely on technology like the ill-designed ArriveCan app.
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Here we go again
Staff shortages due to…?could it be the virus no one is talking about anymore? MasksSaveLives
That's OK Clown Boy Has a Task Force For That LOL TrudeauMustGo Aladdin’s 🇨🇦 Banana Republic 🇨🇦 BlackFaceHitler 🇨🇳🧦🌴🍾🤡🎈
Fired employees due to forcing unjust biomedical perversions onto their jobs and their bodies so they can stay employees. Discrimination Canada. Perverts.
We didn’t have these problems before covid. What has happened to those employees?