Senator Housakos: Senator Gold, your government doesn’t need to monitor anything. They need to lift these mandates and unleash Canadians so they can get back to work and get our economy and our country going again.

One of the main causes of the delays at the Toronto Pearson Airport is the doubling of processing times for inbound international travellers because of your vaccine mandates, including the use of the ineffective and unreliable ArriveCAN app.

Senator Gold, when will your government do the right thing for Canada’s economic reputation and drop the vaccine mandates for all travellers? How much longer will travellers be forced to use this ridiculous app?

Hon. Leo Housakos: Honourable senators, my question is for the government leader in the Senate.

Senator Gold, your government’s deputy leader, Chrystia Freeland, testified yesterday that your government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act during the “Freedom Convoy” was made because the convoy was a threat to our economic reputation. Not only does the act not list that as legal grounds for its invocation, but your government doesn’t seem to suffer any such concerns about the mess it has created at Canada’s largest airport, which has been dragging on for two weeks because of your pointless vaccine mandates.

Senator Gold, why is your government continuing to enforce these ridiculous mandates for incoming international travellers?