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Canadian Government paid $60M for one app

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22 pointsserengetti16 comments

This is the tip of the iceberg of the massive increase in the Trudeau government's spending, and without oversight.

There was a 2-person company that was found to have been paid $20 million of that $60 million and did no work.

NOTE: the $60 million price tag is only an ESTIMATE as the accounting was so poorly done, the person put in charge to investigate couldn't actually determine how much was spent due to how badly records were kept; which should be default assumed as purposefully done to hide money trails.

This Trudeau government has also refused to share with Canadians where exactly the additional $600 million went, which state-funded media companies receive the funds and how much each - on top of the $1.4 billion that CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) Received last year - up $200 million from the standard $1.2 billion, for the next 3 years.

Trudeau government has also refused to share with Canadians where exactly the additional $600

How does this happen in a democracy? They say “nah, not gonna tell you” and everyone accepts it? No way to force them to disclose?

Because people keep voting for them.

The Trudeau-Liberals forms a coalition with the NDP which gave them a defacto majority government + Liberals claim something like Canadians knowing what media-propagandists received how much state-funding media would be a security threat or something like that, so using a certain clause in bad faith to hide who's being rewarded for toeing their line.

"It's a chalet! It's not a cottage."

These guys are so dirty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwHLN-clXQ

So, what did the app do ? Never Mentioned in article

It was made during COVID to make re-entry into the country easier. Included things like quarantine instructions, etc. etc. etc.

Now it's being used as a pre-entry customs and declaration tool to fill out information before you arrive to Canada, and allows you to take an "express line" through customs - I have a few Canadian friends that go down south every winter and they have mentioned it really doesn't speed things up as there's still a bottleneck that each passenger getting off the plane needs to complete - although maybe things have changed recently.

For 10,200 people it also had the nice feature of erroneously telling them they had to quarantine or risk fines up to $5000 per day. Oops.

It generates money for the contractor.

ArriveCAN was used for sorting out your COVID vaccine requirements before traveling to Canada.

Folks had to provide proof of vaccination, travel plans (like where are you going and what's your quarantine plan), etc.

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