It was supposed to cost $80,000 initially. We are now at $59.5 million, or 744 times more expensive. I am of course talking about the ArriveCAN application.
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An incredible scandal, as demonstrated by the words of Auditor General Karen Hogan: “The bookkeeping is one of the worst I have seen [en] several years”, “It’s really surprising to see how basic policies [de gestion] were not tracked,” “We did not find records to clearly show how much was spent and on what, who did the work, or how and why decisions to award contracts were made. The written records should have existed”, “One thing is certain, the value obtained is not related to the funds spent”, “The government paid too much for the application”.
- Listen to political analyst Elsie Lefebvre speaking to Richard Martineau via QUB :
Spending excessively with other people’s money
The ArriveCAN scandal is like my contractor estimating my renovations at $100,000 and finally coming to me with a bill for $74.4 million. The lighting fixtures may be made from Bohemian crystal from the Czech Republic and my table may be made from exotic wood imported from the remote forests of Malawi, but it won’t work.
If I have a wedding budget of $20,000 and my partner, who organizes everything, arrives with a bill of $14.9 million, it’s not a marriage that I’m celebrating, it’s straight up a divorce … No surprise that Canadians want to part ways with Justin.
- Listen to political analyst Elsie Lefebvre speaking to Richard Martineau via QUB :
Go Go and claim $59 million
This fiasco is the perfect portrait of the incompetence of the federal government which is accountable to no one, which manipulates people’s money as if it were Monopoly money, in improvisation and chaos… a government over people.
It is, above all, the infallible demonstration of a government which has lost control over spending.
It should come as no surprise that Poilievre is so high in the polls. Rarely has a politician had it as easy as the Conservative leader this year.
But in which country do we live? From $80,000 to $59 million. And that’s what we know. Imagine the rest…