Conservative MP Blasts Ottawa Bureaucrats Over ArriveCAN "They Said WHAT?"
MP Barrett has the sharpest question of the day for the Government Officials chosen to be the Federal whipping Folk (PM Trudeau secretly calls Fed Peoplekind). There is no one in doubt of the fiasco in spending the Govt created by trying out the work from home method where "day drinking" was the least of managers worries...
Did the Govt get fleeced? Perhaps but the 176 "change Orders" show chaos & the company charged for that chaos management. Really the Govt never tracked the program as it seemed to big to notice... Never mind the Pink Popcorn Elephant!!!
Location: House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario Canada.
Witnesses Are:
Report 1, ArriveCAN, of the 2024 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada
Witnesses
Canada Border Services Agency
• Darryl Vleeming, Vice-President and Chief Information Officer
• Jonathan Moor, Vice-President, Comptrollership Branch
Office of the Auditor General
• Andrew Hayes, Deputy Auditor General
• Lucie Després, Director
• Sami Hannoush, Principal
Key facts and findings

On 29 April 2020, the Canada Border Services Agency launched the digital application ArriveCAN to collect contact and health information from travellers and assist with quarantine measures.
18% of invoices submitted by contractors that we tested did not provide enough information to determine whether expenses related to ArriveCAN or another information technologyIT project. This made it impossible to accurately attribute costs to projects.
The Canada Border Services Agency added the digital customs and immigration declaration form into the ArriveCAN application at a cost of about $6.2 million, to replace the existing paper-based system. The new digital declaration form remained in use after requirements to collect travellers’ contact and health information stopped in October 2022.
We estimated that the average per diem cost for the ArriveCAN external resources was $1,090, whereas the average daily cost for equivalent IT positions in the Government of Canada was $675. The Canada Border Services Agency continued to rely on external resources increasing the cost of the application.
Between April 2020 and October 2022, the Canada Border Services Agency released 177 versions of ArriveCAN with often little to no documentation of testing. In one update, in June 2022, around 10,000 travellers were wrongly instructed to quarantine.
There was no formal agreement between the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canada Border Services Agency from April 2020 to July 2021 to clarify roles and responsibilities. In the absence of a designated lead, good project management practices—such as developing project objectives and goals, budgets and cost estimates, and risk management activities—were not carried out.
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