Decision on Mandatory App Narrative Has PHAC Backed Into Corner This is the eighth post in a series on ArriveCAN, please see prior posts for more context and background. This post is about the confusion regarding ArriveCAN’s purpose, a reminder of how/why we got here — from a legal and…

Mandatory Use of ArriveCAN was Built and Runs on Public Confusion about the Quarantine Act This is the seventh post in a series on ArriveCAN, please see prior posts for more context and background. Earlier this week I had the opportunity to take part in two conversations, one short (Metro…

Some of what we know about the glitch This is the sixth post in a series. It’s short, and it seeks to start to piece together some of what we know about the recent ArriveCAN glitch. On July 22, 2022 CBC’s the National aired a segment detailing the experience of…

The glitch and related processes must be investigated The is the fifth post in a series about ArriveCAN. As always, if you read this and have additional information to share, can see things I’ve missed/got wrong, etc. please get in touch. For those of you that like ArriveCAN, think it’s…

The Trouble with ArriveCAN lives in older unresolved politics of public tech This is the fourth post in a series, please see posts one, two, and three first. I’m still doing background reading to understand and validate the origin story of ArriveCAN. The point of this writing and efforts to…

July 13, 2022 Minister Mendicino, I write to you today to ask that the Canada Border Services Agency shift use of ArriveCAN from a mandatory to a voluntary process. As evidenced by the recent Rogers outage, we know there is a process that could be used at our borders as…

July 8, 2022 Minister Duclos, I write to you today to ask that the Public Health Agency of Canada direct the Canada Border Services Agency to shift use of ArriveCAN from a mandatory to a voluntary process. As evidenced by today’s Rogers outage, we know there is a process that…

More Reasons the ArriveCAN App Must Be Voluntary Please start by reading (or read after this post) the first two posts in this series about ArriveCAN — post one is here, post two is here. They lay out the big foundational problems with this app — namely, democratic process and…

If It Stays, It Must Be Voluntary. Not Mandatory. As Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said on June 28, 2022, the mandatory ArriveCAN app, launched because of, and during, the pandemic, might become a permanent part of how canadian borders are managed. And in this case, a mandatory one. …