Daly told the committee that she was seconded to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) while ArriveCan was being developed. She said she had no authority to make decisions about the contracting process and insisted that her role was largely an administrative one.
You know what I’d love even more than litigating this issue? Figuring out how we can prevent this from happening in the future. How can we ensure that, going forward, legitimate and transparent competitions for government projects are always held, COI are always disclosed, and failures to deliver on projects or efforts to circumvent legitimate processes are always promptly dealt with using commensurate penalties? It sure would help the federal Liberals’ chances of re-election if they could shore up more public trust along these lines