Thank you very much.
During that same testimony, you called ArriveCAN “one example in a long line of far-reaching technological band-aid solutions in search of a problem, solutions that ultimately fail to enhance border security and effectiveness in any real way”. I think that was an apt description for this app, as it is largely no longer in use. Instead, there has been a return to the status quo. That app, which cost at least $60 million and counting, according to the Auditor General, is simply collecting dust, I would say.
How would that $60 million have effectively increased the efficacy of border officers if it had instead been invested in hiring more officers and purchasing X-ray machines, an observation that I think you made last week as well, and boats for border services? Do you think there would have been a better and longer-lasting effect on border security and our officers?