Government Operations committee  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 t

Government Operations committee  I don't. Again, we were not consulted on any part of this process. At no point were we or anyone working at the front line asked how this should be done, sourced or put together.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. That's something that we do support. Right now, we do need other kinds of technology and other kinds of improvements at our borders. We have borders operating with no X-ray machines. We have marine ports with no boats. The situation in a lot of our ports of entry is

Government Operations committee  That's something that I hope the CBSA will look at. It's something that we encourage and push for. Again, we're talking about IT specifically here, but other than IT, when you look at figures like $54 million, I think that could have done a lot more good than what was done with t

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. My name is Mark Weber. I'm the national president of the Customs and Immigration Union, which represents personnel working for the Canada Border Services Age

Government Operations committee  I do, yes.

International Trade committee  Thank you. I've not seen that data. I think that would be a good question for the Public Health Agency.

International Trade committee  I could say yes.

International Trade committee  It is constantly renewed. We go through a lengthy program of training at Rigaud. We learn throughout our careers. We try different modes, we specialize, and we join different teams. You're right that it's all about that interaction, that ability to read indicators, and to be ab

International Trade committee  I would say it did, yes.

International Trade committee  No, we didn't. The number of people who were arriving at the border without having completed the application was fairly consistent.

International Trade committee  If it's simply a matter of confirming that people are vaccinated, that can be done much more simply than having to complete a separate application. Surely there's a way whereby we can get the information that someone is or is not vaccinated when a passport is scanned, since we're

International Trade committee  It's difficult for us to say. We only deal with travellers when they're returning to Canada, so what's going on the other way is really difficult for us to comment on. Again, when the ArriveCAN app was in place, the greatest difficulty that we had was that people simply didn't k

International Trade committee  Well, the bad news is that our contract has actually expired now. Were we in a legal strike position at the time, obviously I don't know where that would have gone, but I can say that our officers have absolutely gone above and beyond to make things flow as quickly as possible ag

International Trade committee  Thank you. We actually don't. We've not been consulted. We were not consulted when ArriveCAN was first made a requirement. We were not consulted on how it should be laid out. We weren't really consulted on what's going to happen once it's made optional or how that's going to loo