A Toronto-based tech company says it recreated ArriveCan within less than 48-hours to show that the federal government overpaid millions for the app.
was established by the federal government to speed up the immigration process at Canadian international airports during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic era. On Oct. 1, the app became optional as the government lifted the mask mandate and health check requirements for travellers.
On Friday night, some of Jaitly’s colleagues launched a voluntary hackathon with the goal of cloning the app and showing the public how fast and cheap it would be to build.ArriveCan’s cumulative cost has been contested. While a CBSA report said the organization had spent a total of $29.5-million on the app,However, the government said the figure is “misleading” since it represents more than just money spent on ArriveCan.
Anthony Housefather, Member of Parliament for Mount- Royal, told CTV News Toronto that the $54 million figure also encompasses costs such as contact tracing for officers and primary inspection kiosks. “Not all apps are the same,” Housefather said. “ArriveCan is not a simple information sharing app. It is a secure transactional tool that used Artificial Intelligence to verify proof of vaccination.”
Jaitly acknowledged it takes less time to clone an app than it does to build it from scratch, but still, he said it goes to show the amount of effort, time and money it could have taken.
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