Daly told the committee that she was seconded to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) while ArriveCan was being developed. She said she had no authority to make decisions about the contracting process and insisted that her role was largely an administrative one.

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    I’m lost. What’s the problem with ArriveCan? The last time I heard people complaining about it was years ago because they were upset about their freedumb to be plague rats.

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      Have you been living under a rock? This has been all over the news for at least 6 months.

      Two of the biggest things that the Auditor General found is that the contractor who won the bid to make it helped develop the bid requirements (massive conflict of interest) and the true cost of the program will never be known because record keeping/management of the project was so poor (inc. a significant amount of invoices that were paid without any supporting documentation describing what they were for).

      Report: https://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/att__e_44429.html

      Wikipedia summary: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArriveCAN

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        Well, although that’s a perfectly fine problem to investigate, I just don’t really care. I really can’t imagine that this is being boosted for any other reason than conservatives still being butthurt that they have a social responsibility to not spread disease.

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          You don’t care that the government is playing favorites / effectively sole-sourcing multi-million dollar contracts and just handing out money for effectively nothing to businesses?

          Wow. It sounds an awful lot like you don’t gives shit about corruption if the end justifies the means.

          Fuck, I long for the days that $16 orange juice was a big enough scandal to bring down the government.

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            Get off your soapbox and consider that myself and hundreds of thousands of people in my generation in this country can’t afford to rent our own places because of the insanely inflated cost of housing and food.

            This story isn’t a shock to me. I think it’s a problem, sure, but in the context of our modern world this story seems much more like it’s intended as a distraction from the more systemic issues at hand.