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Subject: Re: Canadian Border Control screws Amish
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:30:06 -0400
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On 2025-03-24 2:07 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> According to this video, Canadian Border Patrol enforces a law requiring
> Canadians to download what is essentially privacy-violating application
> onto smart phones with lots of personal details including medical
> records. If they don't, there's a $6,000 fine imposed including against
> children.
> 
> Numerous Amish found they had liens imposed against their farms.
> Obviously they don't use smart phones.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scrtSExvu3g

Just to be completely accurate, the agency that is charged with guarding 
our border is the Canadian Border Services Agency, not the Canadian 
Border Patrol. But even most Canadians probably don't know the proper 
name so I won't hold that against you ;-)

As for this app that you are supposedly required to have, I've never 
heard of it and definitely don't have it on *my* smart phone. I've lived 
here all my life so if it really *is* mandatory, it is only mandatory 
for specific people or classes of people. It may well be for frequent 
border-crossers. (I haven't crossed the border to the US in 20+ years.)

I know there's a system called Nexus that has some documentation 
requirements which apparently puts you in a much shorter line at border 
crossing points so that may be what the video is talking about. But you 
can still cross without Nexus, or so I was told by a former colleague 
who frequently crossed the border. You just have to deal with a much 
longer line and can expect to wait several hours at times.

[Pause]

Okay, I just watched the video and they're talking about ArriveCan, not 
Nexus. ArriveCan was an app the Liberals had built during Covid. They 
paid many millions of dollars to get a consulting firm to build it as a 
way to track people coming into the country but it subsequently came out 
that two people built it in a single weekend so they must have paid 
themselves very handsomely indeed - or kicked a lot of it back to some 
Liberal slush fund. (It must be a mess too because it takes considerably 
longer to build a robust and thoroughly tested app than a single 
weekend. You might be able to build a simple UNTESTED app in that time 
if you're a skilled developer but writing and running all the tests 
successfully is almost unimagineable. You can't even DESIGN an app that 
fast unless it is EXTREMELY trivial, let alone build and test it.) There 
was a *lot* of talk about ArriveCan in the news during Covid and believe 
me, it was not people praising it or the government.

I haven't heard about it in a while now so assumed it was no longer 
required but I just found the ArriveCan web page, which was last updated 
in September 2024, and it looks like the app is still around! I had 
thought it was no longer required since we got past Covid but I guess 
it's just fallen off the news radar....

As for the Amish, yes, they were indeed screwed by ArriveCan and 
presumably continue to be screwed unless they've all acquired smart 
phones since this app was launched. But if the Liberals did that to the 
Amish, I feel sure they did it to others too. Ezra Levant really should 
have done a Freedom of Information request to find out who else had this 
happen to them. Rebel News is no stranger to FOI requests, although the 
Liberals amended the FOI rules to give the bureaucrats MUCH more time to 
produce the documents; I believe they also gave them more latitude to 
redact information so it may not be possible to get much more than 
blackened pages at this point.

Then again, maybe the Liberals really ARE that evil and deliberately 
picked on the Amish alone knowing that the Amish would endure it without 
making a ruckus.



-- 
Rhino