Included in an access to information request released on contractors working on the ArriveCAN application is a $4.5 million CBSA contract with Dalian/Coradix which was dated August 8, 2019.
That contract predates the pandemic.
Still think ArriveCAN was “all about your health?”
This is the contract from the government of Canada’s website. It appears a border application was perhaps already in the works before the pandemic hit.
Is that why the Liberals fought so hard against scrapping it?
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Of course, I never thought it was about your health. I always thought it was a method for the government to collect and use your data under broad Privacy Act exemptions built into the ArriveCAN application.
Right before the ArriveCAN app was launched in April of 2020, the government contract to Dalian/Coradix was amended. The new contract awarded was for $10.8 million - more than double the amount of the original contract.
That number then continued to balloon. The government ArriveCAN app contract with Dalian/Coradix was further amended and increased to almost $16.8 million only two short months later - an increase of almost $5.9 million.
What were we getting for our taxpayer money out of this $16.8 million ArriveCAN app contract with Dalian/Coradix?
Thirteen employees whose pay was redacted and remains unknown.
The ArriveCAN app government contract with Dalian/Coradix was also amended - despite having already grown by about 4 times its original amount in just under a year - to include “travel and living expenses.”
Standard taxpayer-funded fare for remote software developers, right?
For everyone who is asking how I know this contract was for the ArriveCAN app - it was included as disclosure from CBSA as a part of the “pre-existing contracts used as the basis for agreements to design, develop, and deploy the ArriveCAN.”
It was always in the works.
Apologies - a correction! That should read $16.7 million. I’m on double-duty cooking a turkey right now. Hopefully Santa will bring me Twitter Blue for Christmas so I can edit, but I already had to cancel my Disney Plus subscription, so it’s not looking very good at the moment.😂
In any event, Liberals used the pandemic as an excuse to force an application they planned to create all along - one with serious privacy concerns - on Canadians with minimal oversight, and insisted it was to “keep us safe.”
Deplorable conduct.
Merry Christmas, tweeplekinds.🎄
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