It's absolutely being used as a cost-cutting measure. No piece of technology will speak to a child to ensure they're travelling with the adult they should be travelling with. They're not going to find the synthetic opioids that they want to keep out of Canada. They're not going to find the guns that are being smuggled into Canada. We need people to do all of these things.
It's not the first time that we see these kinds of band-aid solutions with technology. It's the same principle that was applied when ABC machines were put into airports, when PIK machines were put in and eGates and with remote reporting that we can't attend.... ArriveCAN is just another one of those. They really provide the worst for both worlds, in that they not only reduce security but they also slow things down.