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Public servant named in ArriveCan controversy denies responsibility for contracting issues (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 2 months ago by LimpRimble@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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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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[-] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

You know what I'd love even more than litigating this issue? Figuring out how we can prevent this from happening in the future. How can we ensure that, going forward, legitimate and transparent competitions for government projects are always held, COI are always disclosed, and failures to deliver on projects or efforts to circumvent legitimate processes are always promptly dealt with using commensurate penalties? It sure would help the federal Liberals' chances of re-election if they could shore up more public trust along these lines

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] northmaple1984@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 0 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] northmaple1984@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] northmaple1984@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Government corruption is the reason you can't afford housing and food.

[-] northmaple1984@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago

Most transparent government ever.

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