'Who got rich？' Poilievre grills Trudeau about ArriveCan app
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Summary
Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's $54 million app could have been built in a single weekend for less than a quarter million dollars. Instead, 10,000 people were sent into quarantine when they shouldn't have been.
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Fifty-four million dollars is just a petty matter.
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According to one programmer, a programmer demonstrated that the Arrive Can app
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could have been designed in a single weekend for less than a quarter million dollars.
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Instead, this Prime Minister paid 54 million dollars.
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Ten thousand people were sent by that app wrongly into quarantine when they shouldn't have been.
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And many of the contracts went to companies that have home addresses as their headquarters.
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Will the Prime Minister supply Canadians with the full list of all of the contractors who got the money?
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Well, no. Since day one of the pandemic, we were focused on providing them the support
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and the safety necessary in this unprecedented time,
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despite the political games the Conservatives chose to play throughout the pandemic.
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Obviously, the amount cited includes far more than just the initial development of the app.
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It includes services like cloud storage, IT call centre services, upgrades and future costs.
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On this side of the aisle, we will continue to put the safety and security of Canadians
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at the centre of everything we do in unprecedented pandemics or in regular times, Mr. Speaker.
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Well, creating a 54 million dollar app well over budget that could have been created in a weekend for under a quarter million dollars
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does not protect anybody's safety, nor does an app that sends 10,000 people wrongly into quarantine.
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But the strangest thing is that there are these roughly dozen companies that got the contracts to supply this app.
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The Prime Minister does not want to give all of the names of the subcontractors that got that money.
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I challenge him now, will he commit to supply this house with the list of all the subcontractors
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