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Morning Update: ArriveCan app subcontracting ‘illogical and inefficient,’ Trudeau says
A person holds a smartphone set to the opening screen of the app in a photo illustration made in Toronto on June 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Giordano Ciampini
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Evening Update: Trudeau asks Privy Council Clerk to review ArriveCan contracting
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked Canada’s top public servant to look into the government’s procurement process over what he called a seemingly “illogical and inefficient” contract to develop the ArriveCan app. A person holds a smartphone set to the opening screen of the app in a photo illustration made in Toronto on June 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Giordano Ciampini
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Politics Briefing: Trudeau calls ArriveCan subcontracts through two-person firm ‘illogical,’ asks Privy Council Clerk to review
A person holds a smartphone set to the opening screen of the ArriveCan app in a photo illustration made in Toronto on June 29, 2022. The federal government announced on Monday that starting Oct. 1, all COVID-19 entry restrictions will be removed, including testing, quarantine and isolation requirements for anyone entering Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Giordano Ciampini
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Trudeau questions awarding of ArriveCan contract
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Trudeau calls ArriveCan subcontracts through two-person firm ‘illogical,’ asks Privy Council Clerk to review
A person holds a smartphone set to the opening screen of the ArriveCan app in a photo illustration made in Toronto, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Giordano Ciampini
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Morning Update: Small Ottawa firm subcontracted ArriveCan app to multinationals, documents reveal
A Canada Border Services Agency officer hands documents back to a motorist entering Canada at the Douglas-Peace Arch border crossing, in Surrey, B.C., on Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. The head of a union representing Canada’s customs and immigration officers says chronic staffing shortages mean long waits at the border won’t necessarily disappear when use of the ArriveCan app soon becomes optional. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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ArriveCan contracting wasn’t that bad. It was worse
Campbell Clark
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Small Ottawa firm subcontracted ArriveCan app to multinationals, documents reveal
GC Strategies' Kristian Firth testifies regarding ArriveCan app at the company’s committee appearance in October. 2022. Credit PARLVU.PARL.GC.CA
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High level of redactions in ArriveCan invoices concern MPs on operations committee
A person holds a smartphone set to the opening screen of the ArriveCan app in a photo illustration made in Toronto on June 29, 2022. The federal government announced on Monday that starting Oct. 1, all COVID-19 entry restrictions will be removed, including testing, quarantine and isolation requirements for anyone entering Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Giordano Ciampini
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Nobody knows what happened with ArriveCan, but it sure was lucrative for some
Campbell Clark
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Tech firm listed as having received ArriveCan contract never worked on the app, CEO says
A person holds a smartphone set to the opening screen of the ArriveCan app in a photo illustration made in Toronto on June 29, 2022. The federal government announced on Monday that starting Oct. 1, all COVID-19 entry restrictions will be removed, including testing, quarantine and isolation requirements for anyone entering Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Giordano Ciampini
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ArriveCan app started as $80,000 expense before growing to $54-million, breakdown reveals
Travellers at Toronto Pearson International Airport’s Terminal 1, are photographed on May 25, 2022. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail.
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Spending on ArriveCan app projected to top $54-million, double the amount Ottawa first divulged
A Canada Border Services Agency officer hands documents back to a motorist entering Canada at the Douglas-Peace Arch border crossing, in Surrey, B.C., on Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. The head of a union representing Canada’s customs and immigration officers says chronic staffing shortages mean long waits at the border won’t necessarily disappear when use of the ArriveCan app soon becomes optional. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck