As the CIO, I take full responsibility for the decision to go in that direction. That decision allowed us to deliver ArriveCAN for over two and half years. You mentioned that it was a multi-million dollar decision. It was not.
At the time, we did not know the pandemic would evolve the way it did. All the messages were that it would be over soon. We didn't know variants were coming. We didn't know vaccine certificates were coming. We didn't know about exempt travellers and everything that ArriveCAN had to do.
I made a decision. I stand behind it. It cost $54 million, and it was value for money. As far as I'm concerned, it saved lives.