It is a common practice to do weekend hackathons, when companies or individuals will build something that is a front-end application. Again, it's a common practice and one that we should aspire to work with these smaller start-up organizations on to continue to learn from some of the practices. I accept that.
What I would worry about, as an individual who has run wide-scale commercial operations, not just from the policy side, but actually running these things.... You worry about privacy; you worry about accessibility; you worry about it being multilingual; and you worry about how it hooks into all of the back-end systems. There's a whole testing protocol that needs to go on, not just to have you say it's okay, but to prove it's okay.
It's not just about taking the front end and connecting it to a very complex back-end environment that we have in the Government of Canada. It's taking the time to run the test to prove that you've met all of those criteria around accessibility, languages, security and privacy.
Those are the things that I would worry about.