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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
I'm not entirely sure it is true that the CBSA would not have a list of subcontractors. I have limited experience working on government projects but when we had an assignment with DND everyone doing work had to be cleared by the DND. As a contractor we all did our security clearance and then anyone subcontracting for us on the project also had to do security clearance. I would assume the same process would be in place for the ArriveCan development.
We couldn't just pass along work or requirements to anyone else without the proper oversight.
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I guess it depends what they were doing and what each contractor was engaged in. A company that designed the interface for instance, likely wouldn't be dealing with anything sensitive, so may not have needed security clearance. Or it's possible that the DND is much stricter than the CBSA (which wouldn't be surprising).
I don't know, if they had easy access to a list of subcontractors, why wouldn't they provide it? It's going to come out eventually anyway and this just makes them look more incompetent than they already look. I suppose if there's significant corruption going on, then it'd make sense to delay as much possible. But government corruption usually isn't quite that overt in Canada.