Mr. Minh Doan at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On November 14th, 2023. See this statement in context.

November 14th, 2023 / 1:10 p.m.

Chief Technology Officer of the Government of Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat

I was not briefing the minister or the minister's office about this at this time or in the fall of last year.

Nobody was looking for a proverbial head. The question that was raised last year was, why did it cost $54 million and was it value for money? One of the sub-questions that was making the media was, why, among the 30 or more companies that we worked with to develop ArriveCAN, would one of those companies be relatively small? There were no allegations of wrongdoing. Nobody was looking for a head.

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