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ArriveCan was an app developed by the Canadian Government during the COVID era to track Canadians returning to Canada after a foreign trip. The app tracked Canadians' foreign activities including where they went, stayed, and even who they met with while outside of Canada. The app was developed at a cost of some $54 Million.
Turns out most of that cost was sub-contracting fees. Nearly 60% of the audited funds were paid out to HR Consulting firms -- that simply subcontracted the actual technical work to other firms -- who themselves also subcontracted the work.
Is this scandal just a peek under the rug of how government contracting is normally done? Is this why everything the government purchases (or even touches) is so expensive, shoddy, and late?
During the COVID era, Parliament was closed. The federal government doubled the national debt -- without oversight. Hundreds of billions of dollars were recklessly spent. Enriching friends and families of top bureaucrats and ministers.
The United States thinks that the "Deep State" concept is a conspiracy theory, but just look at Canada. The "Deep State" is so large and pervasive that it even has a name .... The Privy Council of Canada.
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I've alluded numerous times in my various comments involving the subject of our federal bureaucrats actual work that this is the pattern. It is especially evident in areas where the functions should not even have government involvement or where what is being done should be done by state and/or local authorities. The people bear greater cost and lose quality while the federal government gains power.
This process became quite evident to me after the dual state and federal banking system was destroyed and the big banks became ascendant. Like so many things that worked well as time goes by the new generations of people don't even have an awareness of what was destroyed that worked better than what replaced it.
Then the federal government expanded the process of guaranteeing home mortgage loans, followed by the 2008 economic catastrophe accented by the large number of housing foreclosures with those properties now owned by the federal government (HUD) after they paid off the banks with the taxpayers' guarantees for the defaulted mortgage loans. Now the federal government has millions of individual pieces of family real estate that they own, must maintain, and have real estate brokers sell at an additional loss while being paid as contractors.
2008 was followed by additional consolidation of the banking industry followed by a similar process in the medical services, medical devices, pharmaceutical, and medical insurance industries by the adoption of ObamaCare.
The public education and higher academic educational industries had already been captured by the federal government through the teachers' union.
And we all know when the ascension of the 'deep state' became clear to all.
The contracting schemes and scams by our own deep state dwarfs anything going own in Canada.
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I should have made the edit 0f comment #1 a new comment. Didn't realize I would get carried away.
I didn't mention the Defense Department contracting in the first comment but that really expanded during the Covid pandemic and way beyond anything militarily related.
And finally, this is what has triggered what has happened in the House with the removal of the Speaker.
Something drastic must be done to reduce federal spending.
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It really is just money laundering.
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Everything done to expand this process increases the power of the the federal government by decreasing that of the states and the people. The only real chance for restoration of Constitutional power in the people is through the spending authority in the House.
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Clearly, the Trudeau government will need to declare an emergency and arrest anyone posting or repeating the facts in this matter. The app in question was intended to empower government emergency controls so criticism of the origins of the app must somehow be violative of those same emergency controls. If that seems like sophomoric, circular silly reasoning you better not say so if you value access to your bank account.
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