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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
A good example is the new passport redesign. $284 million. It wasn’t sole sourced, but also, I’m not sure it was needed? Why was this a priority?
That is an insane amount of money. I’m sure new passport technology and other things makes it a relatively expensive endeavour- but- $284 million?!?
Just seems like the government is extremely wasteful with money.
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The Passport Office receives 400,000+ applications per month. Very busy department.
https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-...tatistics.html
Government has pocketed $1-billion since 2013 increase in passport cost
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/poli...e-in-passport/
https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen...-pcrf-eng.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...41ceaf990.html
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The redesign passport began in 2013 as a regular process to prevent counterfeiting by integrating new and more modern security features and design techniques.
Gould said that this is a “normal process” and that every 10 years the government updates the passport to ensure the technology is current.
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