Quite a few more development on ArriveCAN occured yesterday, with Cameron McDonald and Antonio Utano testifying against their bosses and throwing them under the same bus. Minh Doan seems to be at the center of many of the question marks and nefarious undertakings yet the CBSA investigator failed to interview him on their investigation. Erin O'Gorman (the CBSA president) is also being accused of lying to the committee.
https://nationalpost.com/news/politi...over-arrivecan
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MacDonald said it was Minh Doan, his then boss and now the government’s chief technology officer, who selected GC Strategies to develop the app. He accused of Doan, current CBSA Chief Erin O’Gorman and other senior officials of having lied when they appeared before the committee.
He accused Dohn of having deleted thousands of emails and having threatened him. Conservative MPs on the committee pushed for an outside investigation from the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mac...goat-1.7123046
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"I think it's pretty clear that tens of thousands of emails have been deleted by Minh Doan," MacDonald told the committee.
"The app could never have cost $80,000," he said. "The $80,000 was to build a digital prototype that moved paper … to an online form that could be used on a mobile phone. It was used to show that you could digitize something."
He said the true estimate was closer to $6.3 million.
MacDonald said that the rising cost of the app can be attributed in part to other departments who argued that since their work was related to ArriveCan, they should also be able to carry out activities under the app's funding envelope.
"There were divisions, federal public servants who wanted to associate with ArriveCan so that they could get the funding that they needed to move their initiatives forward," he said.
"If you could just put it under an ArriveCan tagline, it was easier to achieve the funding and get the budget that you wanted from the finance branch."
Asked directly by Brock if Erin O'Gorman, the current president of CBSA, "lied" to the committee last week when she told MPs she did not know who made the decision to hire GC Strategies, MacDonald said, "Yes."
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The bolded is pretty interesting and continues to show the lack of accountability of Canadian taxpayer money with the pandemic as cover. It sounds like it was a free for all with everyone trying to get their hands in the cookie jar with no contracts or paper trails based on the auditor general's findings. Now I don't believe the 2 will be absolved of wrongdoing, as clearly they were in on it to a degree (whisky tasting event?). But the CBSA investigation was making it seem like they are the masterminds. How deep is this rabbit hole?