A Public Health Agency report submitted to a House of Commons committee says that the mandatory ArriveCan app travellers were required to use when entering and leaving Canada, under threat of fines if they didn’t, saved travellers “about five minutes” at border crossings.
“ArriveCan was a necessary component of Canada’s measures to prevent the introduction and spread of Covid-19 in Canada,” the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) told the MPs of the committee in a submission on Nov. 14, 2022, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter on Jan. 6. “The information collected in ArriveCan was critical.”“It saved about 5 minutes at the border for each traveller, which significantly reduced overall processing time and points of contact at ports of entry,” stated PHAC’s report to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.
