The government is of the position that this is fair value. It was $11 million to a two-person staffing firm that did no work on this app, and we're to be told that the contracting system is fair.
A previous member said, “They can't inflate the price”. Obviously, the price is inflated when there's the ability for ghost contractors and middlemen to make millions of dollars by subbing out the work and never doing a keystroke themselves.
The relationship between this Liberal government, senior government officials and insiders, consultants and lobbyists is.... It's incredibly frustrating for me, but the message I'm hearing from Canadians is that they find it disgusting.
We have Canadians who are struggling. Over the last eight years, rents have doubled. Mortgage payments are up by 151%. There are more than two million monthly users of food banks, and a third of those are children. Everything that has happened with the ArriveCAN app and the responses that we're getting that this is fair value for Canadians' money is why Canadians have lost faith in the head of government, the Prime Minister. This is why they are losing faith in their institutions.
I don't find it reasonable or credible that we hear, “It's fair value. There's no room for the contractors to bid up higher commissions.” The project shouldn't have cost $54 million when a couple of yo-yos in a basement using Google are able to collect $11 million.
If you need specialists on how to find some savings, I'm sure there are people who are a lot smarter than I am who can find ways other than that big red circle I just drew around the $11 million.
I don't have any more questions.