As I said to OGGO last week, I believe the ArriveCAN application provided value for money, but I also accept that it didn't provide the best value for the taxpayer.
When you're looking at value for money, you have to look at economy, efficiency and effectiveness. The Auditor General has recognized that it was an effective app for providing factual information about quarantine on a timely basis to allow them to do their job.
I have spoken about efficiency. The ArriveCAN app costs about one dollar, whereas the paper-based process was costing about three dollars, so it is definitely a more efficient approach than the paper-based process.
When we talk about economy, there is a judgment there. We've talked previously about differences in how we count the money, but I think we all agree that there was insufficient information to record all of the expenditures correctly. Some of that we are going to be dealing with, but we recognize that we should have had the accounting code at the start.