The CBSA, at the time, already had an application called “eDec”, which is short for eDeclaration, so we had some basic understanding of mobile development. Now, I won't pretend eDeclaration was anything near ArriveCAN in terms of complexity. Part of the work we're doing on innovation, following direction from Treasury Board, is to start experimenting with cloud and to do more things on cloud, given the different benefits and the security that it brings.
On November 14th, 2023. See this statement in context.