Madam Chair, I see considerations from the Bloc member and some of his concerns, but tourism is a part of trade, and thus is part of the trade committee's responsibilities. Trade in tourism is a part of the industry itself. That's why maybe it should be included, but only as part of a bigger study, or, like you say, when it comes to its trade implications. The reality is that when business people can't travel across the border because there are huge lineups, or they refuse to cross the border because of the impression that there are huge lineups created by the ArriveCAN app, that problem affects our business community quite directly.
And we're hearing of that quite consistently from people who are travelling through Pearson, especially even through Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary. I've been talking to Americans and they're saying they're not going to travel up to Canada right now, that they'll just wait because it's a gong show. With the ArriveCAN app, they just look at it and say, “What the heck is this? What do I do here?” This is something that's not deemed as acceptable. Now, I would agree with the comment that people are tolerating it, but they're tolerating it because it's forced upon them. And they're questioning what useful purpose it actually serves in helping the government keep Canadians safer. It serves no purpose at all at this point in time.
I'd like to see this study go forward. I think it's important. If we need to make some adjustments on it timing to accommodate it, maybe we could have a meeting on it now and a meeting again in the fall to get an evaluation of how of how the summer went and how business travel happened through the summer. Maybe that's something we could consider. I think it is very important that it come to this committee and be dealt with.