ArriveCan Cost Tourism Industry Billions of Dollars, Witnesses Tell MPs

ArriveCan Cost Tourism Industry Billions of Dollars, Witnesses Tell MPs
A smartphone set to the opening screen of the ArriveCan app is seen in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Giordano Ciampini
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The ArriveCAN app likely cost Canada’s tourism industry billions of dollars in lost revenue, according to witness testimony at a parliamentary hearing.

“It’s been hugely impactful and devastating,” said Jim Diodati, mayor of Niagara Falls. He was one of the witnesses at an Oct. 4 hearing of the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade.

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