Public Accounts committee  No. As far as I'm aware, it's certainly not against any rules or laws to put that up there, and I'm not sure the government has the ability to demand—

Public Accounts committee  Again, if it's not against the law.... I'm not aware of them violating any rules by putting that up there. It's just not something that I would typically expect.

Public Accounts committee  As far as I'm aware, it would be compliant with the values and ethics code.

Public Accounts committee  I have not met either of those—

Public Accounts committee  No. Never.

Public Accounts committee  I'm not aware of that specific detail.

Public Accounts committee  As President O'Gorman said, population isn't the biggest driver of the cost of developing an app. Unfortunately, CBSA has a tremendous amount of technical debt. The capability and cost to link a modern application to it is very expensive, and that was a primary driver for it. Additionally, because our provinces are so separate—each had its own vaccination certificates—that drove up the cost significantly as well.

Public Accounts committee  Ten thousand two hundred were given a false notification that they should have been quarantined when they didn't actually need to be quarantined.

Public Accounts committee  First, I've only been in the public service for 10 months, so I can't comment specifically about what happened before that. However, what appears to have happened is that contractors did come in, and they weren't necessarily used as effectively as they could be. What I mean is that contractors can provide a very valuable service from a staff augmentation perspective, but they also tend to be more effective when you cross-train your own staff, and then when the project is done, the contractors go away.