The Canadian American Business Council's new campaign calls on Ottawa to scrap the ArriveCan app, a mandatory pre-screening tool for visitors to Canada, and to tackle the backlog plaguing the Canada-U.S. trusted-traveller system known as Nexus.
Lawmakers and cross-border business advocates in the United States want Justin Trudeau's Liberal government to go back to the future in order to ease travel delays between the U.S. and Canada.
Both are direct symptoms of the COVID-19 pandemic, and are just part of a constellation of factors critics say are causing widespread travel delays across the continent and discouraging some would-be travellers.But they are also the easiest factors to eliminate, said council CEO Maryscott Greenwood, who fears the pandemic has become an easy excuse to allow for the gradual thickening of the Canada-U.S. border.
Some travellers are intimidated by the app requirement, while others fail to follow the upload procedure until they arrive at the border or the airport, causing customs delays, Stefanik continued. The system receives between 8,000 and 15,000 applications a day, Higgins wrote, and the current wait time for an appointment is upwards of nine months.
"These diminished operations are harmful to the United States economy as well as the quality of life along our northern border," Higgins wrote. Recent media reports suggest those offices are shuttered because of a dispute over whether U.S. customs officers should be allowed to carry sidearms inside Nexus centres, but Greenwood isn't convinced.
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