Thank you very much for that.
Yes, I think tying ArriveCAN to the vaccination status is not purely accurate. I have anecdotes from across Canada of our store owners and their staff being IT experts in trying to fill out the ArriveCAN for people who just didn't know how, and then also there were those who didn't even have smart phones to be able to do it.
A concrete example of how ArriveCAN was a deterrent for people even coming to the border comes from our store in Fort Erie. On the July long weekend, it would typically see 40 motor coaches of mostly elderly people who come across the border and stop in at the store. That's 40 motor coaches full of customers. This year they saw two motor coaches.
The staff at the motor coach companies say it was because the elderly folks did not know how to fill out ArriveCAN. They were scared of it, and they just chose not to come. I think that's an example of how ArriveCAN was just a deterrent for people to even try to cross the border, vaccinated or not.