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The contentious ArriveCan app that was brought in to track citizens during the pandemic has become the subject of controversy once again, following an investigation revealing that three-quarters of the contractors who received money to build the $54-million dollar app didn’t actually have any involvement in its creation.

MPs were informed by a deputy minister that the Liberal government’s chief technology officer Minh Doan misled parliament during a committee testimony about the selection of GCStrategies in the bidding process to build the ArriveCan app.

A fully vaccinated woman who was fined and ordered into quarantine this summer for not using the ArriveCAN app is now suing the federal Liberal government.

"Is there a role for an app that makes life easier? Well, probably, but only if it actually does. Instead, the Canada Border Services Agency confirmed that agents spent hours to help those who wanted to travel, but lacked IT skills to handle the app – worsening border delays."

The head of a Canadian tech firm has expressed confusion after finding the federal government listed his company as having been paid $1.2 million contract to work on the ArriveCan app.

What began with the ArriveCan app being floated as an $80,000 project ballooned to a bill of over $54 million for taxpayers. 

Facing questions about a $54 million price tag for the federal government’s ArriveCan app, a Liberal member of parliament said won’t apologize for an app that “saved the lives of tens of thousands of Canadians.”

Taxpayers will have spent $54 million on the controversial ArriveCan application by the end of the year, new estimates indicate. 

The controversy-plagued ArriveCAN app caused billions worth of lost revenue for the Canadian tourism industry, parliamentarians heard on Tuesday.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms wants the Trudeau government to drop all fines related to the controversial ArriveCan app amid its mandatory use coming to an end.