Re: Canadian Border Control screws Amish

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.
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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.
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Rhino