Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre criticizes the government's ArriveCan app, calling it a waste of money and a sign of incompetence.
There is undoubtedly much to be said — and asked — about the ArriveCan endeavour. But it's not clear (and not for the first time) whether any elected official is ready or willing to think about it too deeply. Auditor General Karen Hogan waits in a hallway to begin a news conference on Monday, February 12, 2024 in Ottawa.
(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press) During the last Conservative government's time in office, it was the G8 Legacy Fund — $50 million used to spruce up a cabinet minister's riding, nominally for the purposes of celebrating the hosting of the G8 summit in 2010. The auditor general Given that experience, one might have expected Poilievre to be more guarded in his response to the Liberal government's ArriveCan troubles. Instead, the Conservative leader is committed to the idea that the ill-fated app — "ArriveScam," the Conservatives call it — is indicative of a profligate and incompetent government. "He took $60 million of your dollars and put it into this ArriveScam," Poilievre told Canadians during a news conference on Monda
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