Why The Huge Pay Checks ??? And, Who Are These People !!!

HOW MANY PARTS of THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT are paid like this ???

 

Arrivecan

A programmer duplicated ArriveCan in two days, an app that cost Ottawa $54 million Given that ArriveCan is a relatively simple text-based screening app, its raw development costs could conceivably have been delivered for under $250,000, some say Author of the article:Tristin Hopper Publishing date:Oct 11, 2022 • 1 day ago • 3 minute read • Join the conversation The ArriveCAN app. The ArriveCAN app. PHOTO BY DAX MELMER/WINDSOR STAR Article content In order to critique ArriveCan’s eye-watering $54-million price tag, over the Thanksgiving weekend a single techie managed to duplicate the app in less than two days. Advertisement 2 STORY CONTINUES BELOW Article content The endeavour was the brainchild of Lazer Technologies, a Toronto-based app developer that was among many in the Canadian tech sphere who were outraged to learn the federal government managed to spend $54 million on a relatively simple border screening app. Canucks Report Banner Canucks Report Sign up to receive The Canucks Report newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox at the start of every series. Essential reading for hockey fans who eat, sleep, Canucks, repeat. Email Address youremail@email.com Sign Up By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc. | 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4 | 416-383-2300 Article content Building an app for the entire country of Canada is no easy task, especially for the Canadian government There are so many challenges associated with it, especially behind the scenes, but $54M is a bit too much Dan from Lazer built an ArriveCAN clone in less than 2 days https://t.co/DCYVmchV73 pic.twitter.com/IWJiSHflR8 — Zain Manji (@ZainManji) October 10, 2022 Advertisement 3 STORY CONTINUES BELOW Article content “The true cost to implement this shouldn’t have been this high — it should have been more efficient,” explained company co-founder Zain Manji in a blog post. And so, Lazer initiated a “hackathon” among its employees to see how quickly it would take to replicate the entire app from scratch. Developer Daniel Whiffing accepted the challenge, and by dinner time on Thanksgiving Day he had created a working clone of ArriveCan that is near-indistinguishable from the original. Whiffing even posted the code online so fellow programmers can check his work. The company says that as soon as the clone app is approved for Google Play and the Apple App Store, anybody will be able to download their ArriveCan clone and take it for a spin. Advertisement 4 STORY CONTINUES BELOW Article content Lazer was careful to note, however, that throwing together a clone app is a much easier task than building one from scratch. “We need to have some empathy for all of the pieces outside of purely building the app and experience,” wrote Manji, adding “$54 million of empathy is unlikely though.” On Monday, another Toronto-based tech company, TribalScale, also announced that its employees had used the Thanksgiving weekend to replicate ArriveCan. Again, it only took about two days to deliver a pitch-perfect recreation of the app. Advertisement 5 STORY CONTINUES BELOW Article content In Tribalscale’s case, they were trying to make the point that Ottawa maybe isn’t very good at technology procurement. The goal of this was to show how smart and talented the Canadian tech community is and offer up a new resource to help with the procurement of technology services for the Canadian government,” wrote CEO Sheetal Jaitly in a statement. Given that ArriveCan is a relatively simple text-based screening app, its raw development costs could conceivably have been delivered for under $250,000, some say. At $54 million, the price tag is more akin to that of a major Hollywood film or big-budget video game release. In the last federal budget, the Trudeau government earmarked $25 million for maintaining the app. Advertisement 6 STORY CONTINUES BELOW Article content But budget documents recently uncovered by The Globe and Mail revealed that the app’s true cost was closer to $54 million. The federal government managed to outsource the app’s development to no less than 23 separate companies, eight of which raked in commissions of more than $1 million. The largest single beneficiary was GCStrategies, a company headquartered in a rural Ottawa house that appears to specialize largely in federal tech contracts. So far, GCStrategies has collected $9 million for work related to ArriveCan. Most notably, all this money hasn’t even delivered a particularly good piece of software. ArriveCan was notoriously plagued by glitches in its early months. In July, a technical error caused the app to order 10,200 travellers into mandatory quarantine despite the fact that they had filed their vaccine information correctly. Advertisement 7 STORY CONTINUES BELOW Article content First launched in April 2020 and kept mandatory until Oct. 1, 2022, ArriveCan spent much of the COVID-19 pandemic as a compulsory public health screening requirement for travellers entering Canada. This would come to include functioning as the Canadian Border Service Agency’s sole recognized method of checking vaccine passports; anyone looking to bypass the app and present paper credentials were either turned away or ordered into quarantine. On Friday in the House of Commons, Conservative MP Michael Barrett asked the government how ArriveCan could possibly have cost $54 million, saying “tech experts are confounded by its costing more than a low seven figures at worst.” His reply, delivered by Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, was simply, “I will make no apology for an app that saved the lives of tens of thousands of Canadians.” RECOMMENDED FROM EDITORIAL The federal Conservatives have been calling for the Liberal government to forgive the fines that were issued to travellers for not using the ArriveCAN app when arriving at the Canadian border. More than 1.6 million travellers arrived at border without using ArriveCAN but fewer than 200 were fined A person holds a smartphone set to the opening screen of the ArriveCan app. FIRST READING: Months after everybody knew it was pointless, the Liberals finally kill ArriveCan Share this article in your social network Share via email Facebook Twitter Share on Linkedin Open more share options LATEST NATIONAL STORIES Advertisement 1 TRENDING Megyn Kelly blasts Kim Kardashian's 'fake ass' after reality star booed at NFL game Woman booted from Disney World after pushing Chewbacca Canucks: Another season dripping in drama with playoffs-or-bust script Canucks Game Day Live: Let's get the season started already! RCMP say they paid Freedom Fighters group and took photo to 'avoid violence' THIS WEEK IN FLYERS COMMENTS Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. 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WHY THE DONATION to kerry ???

 

DID HE FORGET HE LIKES A MARXIST ???

 

jagmet singh
his real name ? jimmy dhaliwal - he is WEF and also likes marxist stuff