Expect serious delays at border due to staff shortages if travel levels rise: union

OTTAWA — The head of a union representing Canada’s customs and immigration officers says chronic staffing shortages mean long waits at the border won’

Mark Weber, national president of the Customs and Immigration Union, warns that if travel volumes start to increase substantially there will be “significant delays” at Canada’s border points.

Weber spoke at a House of Commons committee looking at the ArriveCan app for providing travel and public health information before and after people enter Canada. The cabinet order mandating vaccine mandates at the border and the use of ArriveCan for incoming travellers expires on Friday and the government says it will not be renewed.He urges the government to hire more staff to keep goods and people flowing across the border, not rely on technology like the ill-designed ArriveCan app.

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