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.
Where did the 54million dollars go. Transparency my ass. Trudeau is as corrupt as they come, reminds me of Mulroney.
Sure, it’s easy to clone an existing app when you don’t have to do any of the design, policy, infrastructure, or integration work.
JustnTruedeau JustinTrudeau reminds me of Hitler, with all the propaganda he pays for.
Overpaid? I'm sure Trudeau's friends and family made the perfect amount.
Never trust Politicians, Big Pharma and fake news. Let’s eork on getting rid of all three.
Since when did the government do something affordable and efficient?
Of course it was another sceme to enrich friends of the PM. Possibly for a future job consideration. Corruption is the liberal mantra
It wasn't an overpayment. That money went exactly where it was intended to go. 😉
Stupid post. The big $ are in the design, security, infrastructure and testing - not source code copying. The infrastructure build to secure the backend to protect the personal data (probably protected B data centre storage and network security) alone would've been millions.
Why is this a surprise? A nail that costs 10 cents at a hardware a store always ends up costing the gov't one dollar.
The government overpaid millions for another failure. Tax payers money not government money trudeaumustgo
Not a surprise that Trudeau's government is spending like no tomorrow.
Where are the bracelets Ford spent a couple million on? What did he do with billions allocated for COVID, healthcare and education? For the love of god, do your job and hold the premier accountable.
Now let’s comment on the fact that Pfizer literally admitted they never tested the jabs for transmission. We were all lied to
I traced out the Mona Lisa in an hour. Ha!
'Racist tech company proves they are white supremacist' headline article for CBC with writer imgrund ?
Because the crooked government paid crooked contractors to continue the crooked way they operate.
Ah no. They didn't do anything. Let's see them create something equally complex and requiring regulatory approvals. Photocopying something someone else made is nothing like doing it yourself.
Who cares?
VanRothnRoll Cloning is quite a bit different (easier) than designing an app from scratch. Having said that, of course the Trudeau govt. got hosed and/or an individual received kick backs and it needs to be fully investigated by a 3rd party.
Did they do spec development and testing and back office software or just replicate the user interface?
All the little minions rushing to be 'in charge'. Pathetic.
The worst part about ArriveCAN was when PigeonPierre was caught red handed using MGTOW tags and CdnMediaFailed by trying to ignore it.
Everything this government pays for is overpaid… with horrible product at that
The government ALWAYS overpays. Liberals do not care.
LOL! What a scam and a giant waste. This government needs to go, badly.
None of this governments spendings are transparent. Nobody seems to have oversight into our government spending. An audit should be done.
Like the conservatives pat system that bankrupted federal employees? Apples and oranges. Phoenix?
So Toronto Tech Companies what is your game? Show off? Or did you in fact privately show Feds what could happen and then decided to tell all of Canada to show how good you are? Fact is ArriveCan is future so if you have something good to contribute do it or 'sit down'! CBCNews
Not surprised in the least…
I’m willing to bet JT pocketed some of that money. In fact I’d bet my next years’ pay in it!
Omg…tax payer’s screwed again!!!
Funny, the tech company had the blueprints and the working app to clone it. The company who produced it did it without all that help, all by themselves which, surprise, surprise, cost them a whole lot of money. 🤦♀️
Cloning is not developing something new
Replace overpaid with stole and this is accurate...
Not overpaid. Just proof of blatant money laundering
The government of Canada's biggest failures during COVID were the two apps (COVID Alert and ArriveCan). Remember that COVID Alert was useless because they refused to list the time of exposure, plus it would alarm people with updates that looked like alerts.
So? Hindsight is always 100%! Sour grapes by these tech companies?
They'll never learn. First time I used it at the border it didn't work. Killed intra-day border traffic to border towns. They'll always go for the big name shingle over the door over the small and capable.
Trudeau Liberals should be embarrassed and ashamed. But we will get no humility from them.
What government has never overpaid for anything? Not one. Doesn’t matter the party status.
OmarAlghabra How’s it going? Release the names of your friends who got this contract.
shocked CP24 approved this article😂
pierrepoilievreforpm
DDD4ever10 it doesn't take a big imagination to realize that if the $54 million Liberal-NDP Party of Canada anti-virus app could be put together in a weekend by a few coders just imagine, like really imagine all the other grotesque inefficiencies of their spending... 🤢🤮
I love to screw over Canadians
Overpaid? That’s naïve. That money went where they wanted it to go.
Now keep in mind they want to redesign the energy industry. We're so fucked.
99% for the big guy
Corruption
Too bad none of the contracts for this app or the 10s of thousands of ventilators that were never used, the 600 Billion of unaccounted spending will never see the light of day
It’s called bribery & corruption. Nothing new here with the liberal government 🙄
Follow the money and see where it leads
Over paid? 😂 Laundered money to special interests sounds more accurate….
Shocking. Liberals throw around money like it’s not theirs. I want to know who the $54 million went to?
A real investigative reporter covered this in August. Trudeau paid media is finally forced to report on this.
Do the clones meet al the security requirements of data and personal that ArriveCAN had to meet?
FollowTheMoney
“We understand that mistakes were made, but the only way to improve moving forward is to learn from mistakes that were made and to implement those lessons in future scenarios.” So, we'll spend MORE of YOUR money on the next one so it will be a little less hot garbagey.
That’s ridiculous. Ask them to start from scratch, not just cloning what is already existing.
Hahaha can't they track which accounts the money got deposited into? Maybe look at the politicians and executives
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Canada is a clown country run by one of the biggest clowns of them all..
So what does this say for protection of our privacy and data ?
They should have cloned it before and sold it. Many a liberal would have bought it. Hook line and sinker
hahahaha only in canada
Does that surprise anyone given the Liberal record on overpaying and wasting money on give projects?
Where are those beeping bracelets fordnation paid for? Wonder how quick a tech company could clone one of those assuming any even got made?
…Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V… “see, we did it better than you…”.
It is a corrupt government.
Not overpaid, the word is 'embezzled' and it was very intentional
Now imagine what could be done without monopolized healthcare.
BCBornandBred Who in JT’s wedding party got the $54m contract?
Speaking about clones, how many justins are there at anyone time?
We need to follow the money!! Who got rich on our tax dollars!! They need to be charged with treason.
My cat could have written the Uber App. Larry Ellison CEO Oracle.
The Auditor General needs to investigate this wastage.
money laundering or the gov was hooking up their homeboys with a fat paycheck
Shocker! People see government contract and Quadruple the price. Must have been a buddy of someone's!
Now do the missing pandemic relief money doug hid.
54M. 😂 Series A funding round for top tier start ups don't even get that kind of money. Perhaps the WE Charity developed the app 🤓
Gov don’t overpay… they just give money t on their buddies and pretend like it was for some service!
Thanks…please continue with this new found search for truth.
Real price (including profit) Under 100k
Someone has to pay for Trudont's vacations
Get rich quick scheme
Follow the money
Wait.. what CP24 reporting truth for a change? Or is this a mistake? It's just this one little thing. Surely our gov't has been up front about all things Covid
Just another day under trudeau and his merry band of dysfunctional clowns.
It's called money laundering. The government never overpays, just ask them...
Next... who got the money and how are they connected to this corrupt, inept Liberal Government?
They should pay for this. This is outrageous I can’t let my fellow Canadians standby why they get fked by this government stealing our money and raising our taxes PierrePoilievre this is beyond upsurd cafreeland should be Netflix for her corruption
Follow the money!
That's like saying you 'cloned' a Stephen King book to 'prove' you could have written it faster and cheaper. Copying something is not the same as creating it.
Corruption, Corruption, Corruption..... will be interesting to see the price of each vaccin..... after that we will see again Corruption, Corruption, Corruption
A lot of the time it didn’t even work and people were given quarantine notices even though they had their COVID tests and Vaccine proof in hand!
This is a completely illogical comparison. Programming from scratch & duplicating are two very different things. Not to mention the legal/regulatory work that needed researching & all in the midst of a once in a lifetime pandemic with severe time pressures...shame on you
What do you mean? These are the only ways politicians can scam us out of any tax money for a fat payday.
They don't care. It was probably money laundering or they got a kick back
Is anyone surprised?
Yeah, but it is for friends of the Liberals. We live in a crony society where its not what you do but who you know that determines how much you get paid or the special treatment you get from the government. End It!
Overpaid or did the cost reflect that of the clones resulting in the Trudeau government pocket the excess funds?
Well voters will remember next time JustinTrudeau liberal_party
😂😂😂. Government fiscal responsibility at its finest.
Since when have governments (at any level) been known to successfully negotiate any contract?
TrudeauLiedWeAllDie
Ask a tech company how difficult it is to create something from scratch, we have been building hozpitality for over 3 years now and we are still far from done, let’s not go after the original!
Maybe someone should talk to Anita, probably someone in her family like her husband AnitaAnandMP
JustinTrudeau liberal_party which of your friends made all the money? JustinTrudeau was it your brother or mother you funnelling money too? Sorry won’t cut it this time! PierrePoilievre why can’t the public see who the contract was with? Canada cdnpoli
It was just another front to move money around.
Easy when you have the blueprints
Sounds about right
this, I contend, underscores Liberal government incompetence
No way, the Canadian government overpaid..... kinda like we do with everything else....
What kickbacks did libs get for this ?
Hey say it with me... The LIBERAL government funneled 54 million dollars through a friend's company to get paid to make and app that could be done for $250k. They and all of their friends were happy with taking more taxpayers money and embezzling it. There ya go, fixed it!
Just another expense our Government has misused our money on, when there are millions of people who can’t afford food or gas.
This should be no surprise to anyone. Everything and I mean everything the government pays millions for there’s always someone making millions from it. Just look at construction for one. Such a corrupt scheme and has always been this way. Sickening I know!
The big thing here is we didn’t need the stupid app just like we didn’t need the stupid vaccines.
Another one of Trudopes 'what's in it for me and my friends' scams
It's always easy to spend money that isn't your own ... especially if you didn't earn it Factsoftheday
Government money laundering in plain sight.
Liberal corruption
Gov. funding in AI as in many other fields in the last 10 years should also be investigated, too? Our taxes wasted on useless and/or overpriced products
What’s new with the Trudeau liberals and their puppy Jagmeet. ArriveCan
It's easy to copy an app. I can make Twitter in 24 hrs
What!!! Somebody profiting from this virus. Say it ain’t so. A lot of government friends milked and still are milking the taxpayer. Happiness is a government contract.
The guy company cloned an app. He didn't build it from scratch.
Probably Trudeau’s cousin that designed or sourced it’s development taking most of the cash
Hey Fox24 its Cloned, oh you just said that!
Easy to copy something already developed!
I commend the people who have profited off the ignorance of the government
ArriveCan was a failure from the start, just like cp24 is a failure
Building a POC is easy. Cloning an app is even easier. TribalScale and SheetalJaitly clearly doesn't work with the government much. TribalScale also went nearly bankrupt in 2020, not the best example of business acumen.
Ah yes because creating a form app in Xcode with no backend integration to anything is the same thing 👌
they never overpaid millions they just told us that’s what they paid so they can all make their little ‘commission’
We already knew that these liberals overpaid for it. Some liberal friend made millions off of this deal
Once again our tax dollars used responsibly. Wow. No accountability in politics. None. Disgraceful
I am guessing that somehow either Justin or one of his friends or family was financially benefiting from the whole thing. Why do think we are billions of dollars in debt.
Who got the contract and who are they related to? Fire them all and recoup the money.
it’s what Trudeau does. enrich friends. elites taking care of each other
They didn't over pay bc it went to their friends and I'm sure they got briefcases full back as a thank you. That's my opinion on it! followthemoney
Well All IT companies charge a lot anyway when it come to government it will be more because Government have a lot of working IT people at their home and doing nothing and well paid.Government should have done inhouse development.but it is JT government want to spend the money
You'll go to such great lengths in your silly attempts to smear government. MSM is trash nowadays.
Kickback I guess. Corruption, I’m sure.
That is completely normal for anything any level of government does.There must be room in the bid for kickbacks.
Trudeau once again money laundering! It’s so criminal how he keeps getting away with this. We charity and the ventilators…..
Has anyone found out yet who the individuals were that screwed the government
Government waste? Noooo
Shocking.
inky_mark How much of that $54M ended up as a donation to Trudeau Foundation? Unfortunately Trudeau stopped CRA audits on charities so we'll never know until he's voted out.
SheetalJaitly 👀💪
Took them 5 hours they laughed at trudeau the rest of time
Writing a book and then copying a book does not take same amount of time.
All based on LIES CrimesAgainstHumanity Corruption
'Overpaid'. 🤣🤣 is that what we are going with?
shame on these tech companies for armchair quarterbacking this after the fact. everyone can play Purple Haze after Jimi Hendrix created it. nobody could before he did it. no way any tech company woulda done it from scratch any cheaper. bs. this is just self masturbatory marketing
Probably one of Trudeau’s buddy’s that got the contract for the app. Kind of like the We charity scandal, but this way he can’t caught quite as easy.
I'm sure there wasn't any money laundering involved because you know, that's not really Canada's thing 🤓
Put 10 billion dollar fine
The government should have ordered it from Wish.
Who was this developer that got the $54M contract
No problem, the app the conservatives came up with in Ontario during Covid was also written by children and over paid. It’s a Pandemic, everything was is paid by the taxpayers 😓 will all be paying it back for years and years someway or another. 😭
So let's get an itemized cost breakdown and move on. After all this is a transparent government right?
It’s easier to clone an app though, but I still think the govt overpaid for the app.
Basically they gave the contract to someone they know and paid out the ass for it and made a side door deal
But it saved tens of thousands of lives!🤣
The annual tax bill of approx 5400 average taxpayers was spent on creating a glorified form
So much money for such an unnecessary app that did nothing to prevent Covid!
We paid
Liberal scandal strikes again!
But building the app on a budget doesn’t help liberal insiders build their wealth.
Just another massive failure brought to you by JustinTrudeau
That be like saying that someone that copied a da Vinci is as good as da Vinci, the original is always harder to create on every level, cloning it is always easier because you don’t have to be creative or problems off, This proves nothing except this company can copy code.
Any web developer can make a Twitter clone in a few days. To make a scalable, accessible, secure app will take you years.
Liberal. Money. Laundering. Scheme. Just another one of many
s22szn
Its not my money
achrosen We’re being hosed. Liberalinsanity
Psst your convoy is showing...
I think it's time to get a refund...Our government got scammed...54 million is a crap load of carbon tax
GC Strategies contract history shows they developed and created the ArriveCAN app for $9.3 million.
Yes bc cloning something that already exists is totally the same as creating it. This is a perfect comparison I can see this🙄
Uh oh CP24..r u jumping ship? Lol
Getting bot farms to give a month-old Canada-specific app more reviews than Facebook and Uber combined ain't cheap yunno.
This is a conspiracy 🙄
Seriously, what?
LOL I’m not surprised
Peak tech bro vibes
Seriously, though! 🙄
Seriously though go and hug a conspiracy theorist. How much more will it take to realize you're being robbed by our fed govt. Sorry if you're too far dons the rabbit hole to see the truth. Ignorance must be truly bliss
When Trudeau's deceit and corruption are endless.
So crazy that politicians can just rob the public like this and face no consequences. People in Canada are way to passive. Nothing will happen but a slap on the wrist for these scumbags.
Can you say laundering money without saying laundering money. cp24 you go first.
Where did this money go?
Sid_Seixeiro you BETTER bring this up tomorrow morning and ask WHERE DID THE MILLIONS GO Robbing taxpayers is criminal and this is a crime. TrudeauMustGo
But they can't figure out who put Pierre's hastags on a media app?
Alot of Liberal booster got rich.... 🤣
Stunning development...
Typical wasted liberal spending. Which one of Trudeau's rich friends got paid this time? TrudeaMustGo TrudeauDestroyingCanada TrudeauResign
It was never about your health
Taxpayers were robbed of 54 million dollars.
Time to name every single person involved in this contract. Maybe dig deeper into their affiliation to MPs; Liberal staff and Trudeau himself.
Love it. JustinTrudeau eat 💩
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