AGAR: Chasing millions paid to develop the ArriveCAN app Via jerryagar1010
There is no reason to treat contracts like this one as if it is a missile defence system. It is an app.Advertisement 4You know who has my credit card? Amazon. TD Bank. Uber. Pizza Hut. At least Pizza Hut delivers. I wonder if any of those companies were one of the 75 subcontractors, because they seem to know what they are doing.It means that the government’s books are online, open to everyone. All the time. We should be able to watch the data entry in real time like it was a Google doc.
Obviously, the police aren’t expected to tell us who the under-cover officers are, but we need to know the budget. I want to know who all those 75 subcontractors are, what they were paid, and what they delivered. It is just an app. A $53-million dollar, over-budget app.Advertisement 5The other possibility is that our government is so incompetent and careless that they allowed themselves to be taken for a ride on our dime. If that is the case, the company, GC Strategies, owes us answers.But neither seems willing to do so and that leaves us with no recourse but to believe something is rotten in Ottawa.
Of course, this sort of thing is not unique. Ontario has sunk well over a billion dollars into an app that does nothing more sophisticated than allow us onto public transit. Off the shelf systems were available from a number of cities around the world, but the Ontario Liberals threw a busload of money at it, and have never shown us who got the money, and why.
Honest people have no problem opening the books. Honest people and businesses welcome scrutiny, to the satisfaction of all.Share this Story:
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