‘What Do You Do?’ Tories Question Companies at Centre of Subcontracting Work for ArriveCAN

The heads of the companies were grilled by Tory MPs on what value they provided to Canadians.
‘What Do You Do?’ Tories Question Companies at Centre of Subcontracting Work for ArriveCAN
A smartphone set to the opening screen of the ArriveCan app is seen in a photo illustration made in Toronto on June 29, 2022. The Canadian Press/Giordano Ciampini
Matthew Horwood
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The heads of the companies Coradix and Dalian, which received millions of taxpayer dollars to develop the ArriveCan app and then subcontracted the work to other companies, were grilled on Oct. 31 by Conservative MPs on what value they provided to Canadians.

“You represent a two-person company that receives contracts and then subcontracts, and you’ve received millions of dollars from taxpayers for the process of receiving contracts and then subcontracting. So what would you say you do here?” asked Tory MP Garnett Genius during the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.