There was no choice but to develop an app. It was clear that the Public Health Agency needed a better way to collect this information. I am proud of the way the agency responded.
Obviously, I'm basing it on what I knew then versus what is being revealed now. The app was still the right answer to the challenge we had. It facilitated our ability to manage the border, and it will continue to facilitate, in its new form, legitimate travel and trade across the country. Other countries are using similar approaches. In terms of how it was...what was spent, that's the debate of the procurement system, and people are looking at that in terms of how to manage that better. However, it was the only option available to us at the time—to procure these outside resources to help us build the app.