‘About Political Control’: Alberta Cabinet Minister on ArriveCan and Border Vaccine Requirements

Police and workers wait for arrivals at the COVID-19 testing centre in Terminal 3 at Pearson Airport in Toronto on February 3, 2021. The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn

An Alberta cabinet minister says the federal government’s vaccine requirements at the border and use of the ArriveCan app are not based on science, but rather on political opportunism.

“It never was about science but about political control and power,” said Alberta’s Labour and Immigration Minister Kaycee Madu in a Twitter post on Sept. 20.