There has been a great deal of press recently regarding the Arrive Can app, which Canadians were forced to use in response to the pandemic from Apr 2020 – Sept 2022. It now appears that the final costs to the taxpayer will be somewhere north of $60 million for a product that is reported to have taken two days to develop.
I have been reluctant to tell the story of my experience with Arrive Can app until a sufficient amount of time had passed, and I was confident that the state would not pursue me. But the recent ruling by the Auditor General has re-opened another egregious episode of life under Trudeau’s unlawful tyranny of 2022.
Like thousands of others, having had our bi-annual family trip to the U.K cancelled due to the pandemic in 2020, we rebooked to go in July 2021. However, by that time, the Trudeau government had implemented a mandatory quarantine upon arrival at a cost of $2000 p.p. in one of his polythene clad holding facilities. This for a family of four made the entire trip prohibitively expensive, and so we cancelled again.
In the fall / winter of 21 / 22 the Trudeau government went to war against all those people who were holding out and refused to take the vaccine. This is something that hit my family hard, as both my wife and I were subject to vaccine mandates in November 2021, as I have detailed previously in Part One & Part Two.
My wife eventually succumbed to the pressure and got vaccinated in March 2022 when she realized that she would not be able to attend her grandmother’s 90th Birthday.
I held out as I believed the restrictions for non-vaccinated travellers and Arrive Can requirements would be dropped at some point that year. In May, it was announced that unvaccinated travellers could leave Canada, but that proof of vaccine status and use of Arrive Can were required for entry back into the country. So I booked a solo flight for early September with a return date of 22nd September. Every other country in the world except the U.S had dropped all travel restrictions by then, and so I was confident that Canada would soon follow suite.
September came around without change in the government’s position and I left for the U.K. Prior to the trip I had educated myself as thoroughly as possible in how to respond to any challenges from Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), police or Public Health Canada (PHC) officials. There were a series of very helpful videos circulated from a CBSA officer called Patrick McNulty, in which he detailed what authorities could and could not legally request of you.
I also got advice from Action4Canada and downloaded their Notices of Liability (NoL) to issue to any individual who impeded my lawful entry back into the country.
At the same time I was following developments daily, hoping that restrictions would be dropped prior to my return, and that none of this would be necessary.
On the day I flew to fly back to Canada – 22nd Sept 2022, Trudeau announced that he was lifting the pandemic travel restrictions as of 1st October 2022.
This however did not save me from what awaited me upon arrival at Pearson Airport in Toronto en route to Vancouver.
The first thing worthy of mention was the delay getting off the plane in Toronto – there weren’t enough staff to deal with the number of aircraft arriving, so flight crews were keeping passengers on aircraft until told to disembark. In our case this was 30 mins.
When we got to customs, the CBSA officer asked me for my Arrive Can. I informed him that I had not downloaded it. He scribbled on my customs ticket and sent me down the corridor. At the end of the corridor I was pointed into a room by a security officer. I asked him if this was for Public Health Canada and told him that I did not consent to seeing them. At that point I carefully moved around him and continued walking to the main lounge.
The next thing I can hear someone behind me calling ‘Sir!’ ‘Sir!’ I continued walking and all of a sudden two PHC officials and two police officers have caught up with me. One police officer demands my passport. I hand it to him and he immediately starts walking back to the room I had previously been pointed to. I inform him that the passport is my property and I do not consent to being separated from it. I also asked if I was being detained – they did not reply.
Back in the room my passport was handed to a PHC officer who began asking me questions whilst two officers – a sergeant and a constable – stood directly behind be prohibiting me from leaving.
The PHC official was an officious diminutive Scot of clearly Calvinist stock; the sergeant had dead small eyes that betrayed a familiarity with extra judicial violence and at least one acrimonious divorce.
I took out my phone and switched it on to record everything. Immediately the sergeant pointed to a home made printed sign that declared: ‘No Filming’. I could have persisted I know, but remember 2022 was a year of unaccountable violence for Trudeau’s regime police across the country. I also knew the airport police in Toronto had a documented track record of unlawful intimidation and violence, and I was genuinely concerned for my safety.
Mother claims she lost baby after confrontation with police over Arrive Can app.
I kept calmly asking if I was being detained and whether I was free to go, and they did not reply, but their body language and positioning around me made it clear that I was not free to go.
I had now stepped into the kill zone of Trudeau’s war on the non-compliant. These guys were about to use every weapon they had at hand to punish me for daring to stand up to the unlawful demands of a state suffering from Soviet psychosis.
The PHC official asked for my name and address and a driving license. I told him that the only information I was willing to provide was in my passport, which is all I needed to enter the country. He asked me if I had the Arrive Can app and whether I was vaccinated. I refused to answer any of these questions.
This annoyed him greatly. With a flurry of barely contained aggression, he issued me three municipal infraction tickets, each of which carried a fine.
I received a ticket and $5000 fine for not using the Arrive Can app; another ticket and $5000 fine for travelling whilst unvaccinated, and a third ticket and another $1000 fine for not disclosing my vaccine status. Total: $11,000.00
One police officer took my passport and tried to find me on the Ontario driver’s licence database. When they couldn’t they had to issue these tickets to me NFA (No Fixed Abode).
Then it was my turn.
I asked the two officers for their names and badge numbers. The sergeant refused to give his information and covered his number on his jacket by placing his hand over it. He told me that the constable would provide his badge and number, which he did. I served them both with Notices of Liability. The sergeant asked: ‘Where did you get these, off the Internet?’
‘No’ I said ‘I got the from Action4Canada and OnGuard4Thee – a group made up of CBSA and police officers committed to protecting the rights of Canadians.’
I didn’t have to finish the sentence ‘… unlike you fuckers’, but they got it.
I told them that I was doing this for my kids & his kids for that matter, and that all this would be over with if everyone just refused to comply. The other junior officers stood milling around in the room – a total of eight, appeared to feel bad about what was happening.
As the PHC official handed me my glorified municipal traffic tickets, I handed him his Notice of Liability, to which he replied:
‘I am going to throw this in the bin as soon as you leave.’
And I thought: that’s exactly what I’m going to do with these tickets. But I didn’t say it.
He then took a picture of me as he held up my passport next to my face and told me that I needed to register with PHC upon return home and quarantine for the next 14 days, and that the police would visiting my home address tomorrow to check that I was.
At this I realized that most of what he was saying was just for the sake of intimidation, and that this encounter was now coming to an end.
I turned to the police officers and PHC official and holding up my $11,000 fines I said: ‘By the time these tickets get to court, Trudeau won’t be in power anymore.’
I wanted them to know that this was going to court.
Chris Sky Refusing a PCR test upon arrival at the airport in Toronto.
Aftermath
I arrived home later that day still quit affected by the experience. Even if you think they are bluffing, and all of their tools unlawful, it is still unsettling to have government agent issue you with $11,000 in fines for not obeying made up directives.
I didn’t think anything would come of it, but I decided that I would contact the court and potentially expose myself to accountability by requesting a court date, as I did not want a judgement to go against me in absence and find myself fending off debt collectors, no matter how unlikely it was. By the end of the last week in October 2022 I had requested a date to face my accusers in court. This was by far the worst bit.
Then I waited, and I waited and I waited. Three months went by, then six, and then a full year. And now, as I write this, a full 17 months have passed and I have not heard another thing about this.
Lessons Learnt
Upon reflection of the whole process – from government declaration to almost a year and a half after without further action, two things become clear:
This entire campaign was entirely based on intimidation and coercion – it was intended to intimidate Canadians into following edicts issued by the Trudeau regime.
None of what I have described is based in reasonable application of the law, nor is it lawful. My experience contravenes so many of our Charter Rights – our right to free movement, our right to re-enter the country unimpeded on a Canadian passport, and the unlawful act of fining a Canadian $11,000 for not using an app when there is no legal requirement to do so for not disclosing medical information.
I believe most judges would toss such a case out for egregious abuse of authority and disproportionate punishment, given that the fine for transporting high capacity rifle magazines over the border is a mere $7,500 in comparison.
Man fined $7500 for smuggling high capacity rifle magazines into Canada
Trudeau’s Arrive Can Scam is not only a financial crime; it was used as a weapon by the state to intimidate non-compliant Canadians for 3 years.
How many people simply paid their fines? How many people were subjected to the stress of intimidation and threat of financial ruin? How many Canadians didn’t get to see their families in other countries, or were heavily coerced into taking an untested government mandated injection we now know can have a profound negative impact on health?
This is just another chapter in the catalogue of abuse of power and tyranny that life under the Trudeau regime has been. One day this government will fall, but that should not be the end for them. We need to pursue every member of the Trudeau regime and NDP enablers, so that they are brought to justice for their crimes against the people.