So I’ve learned today that Canadians need a smartphone, probably only iPhone or Android, to travel back to Canada. They have this new app, ArriveCan, that they require you to fill out some basic information that probably would be fine to fill out with paper or something else. But that option simply does not exist.
For most of our crowd, this is not an issue. But imagine those that are older. Those that don’t want to use android or iOS. Or in the case of a friend, those who have low battery and basically no data.
I think it’s ridiculous.
(for the record: I am strongly pro-vaccine and pretty in favor of reasonable restrictions)
Edit:
Looks like I’m wrong about the app. That’s good, sorry about that. You can go to the website before arriving at the airport and print it off according to comments below.
Like in Italy we had to fill out about 100 input fields from shitty dropdowns, and it wasn't basic personal information (i.e. they wanted your parent's names and birthdates). By shitty dropdowns an example is birthdate required me to click year by year from 2021. It took about 15 minutes to fill out on mobile. I really felt bad for the older people filling it out on their mobile devices.
The amount of data that is being collected is pretty insane when you travel nowadays.