The Libranos: ArriveScam

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Did she look inside the brown paper bags?

In a damning report released Monday, Canada’s auditor general found government departments kept weak records and had poor financial controls over the ArriveCAN App allowing costs to spiral and leaving even auditors unsure how much the app cost.

Auditor general Karen Hogan estimated that the Canada Border Services Agency spent $59.5 million on the cell phone app, but said she can’t be sure.

– In a damning report released Monday, Canada’s auditor general found government departments kept weak records and had poor financial controls over the ArriveCAN App allowing costs to spiral and leaving even auditors unsure how much the app cost.

Auditor general Karen Hogan estimated that the Canada Border Services Agency spent $59.5 million on the cell phone app, but said she can’t be sure.

Testimony here.

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42 Replies to “The Libranos: ArriveScam”

    1. It was an emergency! Extraordinary times! Our greatest responsibility is to safety! And when you’re all properly distracted we enrich ourselves. What is the big deal??!

  3. Obviously incomplete and inaccurate records worked to their benefit. To the CRA: is it OK if I follow the same standard when filing my taxes? No, I didn`t think so.

  4. Worse: the app can still be downloaded, it has an average ranking of 4.8 out of 5 stars, and it has 67,000+ positive reviews, including tens of thousands since October 2023, long after it became a requirement for air travel.

    In the words of Andy Sipcowicz, that’s a real head scratcher, that one.

    1. l really liked the actor played that part. he really grabbed ahold of the role.
      never forget the scene the perp is running up the ‘spiralling’ type stairwell.
      he cant keep up so lines up the shot and badabing just as the bad guy comes into a sliver of view in the narrow vertical column in the stairwell.
      curiously, in the series, he played a different part of a bad guy and did so well they kept him on in the role of a good guy

    1. Why do you think anyone in Canada has the power to arrest Trudeau? The PM of Canada has more power in his country than any other leader of a developed western country.

      Btw, for all the “crimes” people accuse Trudeau of committing, I wonder if he has ever committed a real crime or just ethical violations.

      There has to be real court worthy evidence to prosecute someone, or you have to be an enemy of the Liberal Establishment.

      2. If the government ever gets around to banning NDAs for when it comes to sexual crimes, as some have proposed, then potentially he has.

      3. Why do you think anyone in Canada has the power to arrest Trudeau?

        Citizen’s arrest. You could arrest him.

        I wonder if he has ever committed a real crime or just ethical violations.

        Ask the underage girl at West Point Grey Academy.

  6. This is just one project. Imagine how much has been stolen from the hundreds of billions “spent” over the last eight years.

  7. If a business is suspected of committing financial crimes like fraud and money laundering, aren’t they subject to asset freezing and asset forfeiture laws. If the auditor general of Canada has found “glaring disregard” for project management, contracting and accounting…shoudn’t contractors, bureaucrats and politicians directly involved have all of their accounts frozen and have their taxpayer funded wages suspended until this is sorted out.

    This looks like a massive breach of public trust by those who have a responsibility to properly manage taxpayer’s money. Probably just the tip of the iceberg.

    1. Remember when the Harper government’s biggest financial crime was when his chief of staff *paid taxpayers back* with his own money because of a conservative senator’s iffy expense claims. How can anyone forget since the media talked about it daily for weeks and weeks. I doubt Canada’s journalists will pursue this as doggedly. Two days of coverage or maybe a week at best?

          2. I believe that was from the Munk debates back in 2022. Douglas Murray and his ally, Matt Taibi, I believe, OBLITERATED the opposition in that debate. The audience vote afterward confirmed that.

            Imagine that! In Toronto! The Lie-beral heartland that voted almost unanimously red in the last federal election!

    2. Somehow the Auditor General cannot find all the records related to this particular project, which suggests she is either bad at her job, or doesn’t want to look, since there is records of bank transfers, checks, etc, and it may take a long time to figure out, but it is doable, especially if there is a suggestion that fraud has taken place.

      1. Trudeau’s Canada is a banana republic so, no, there’s probably no recourse for taxpayers to find or regain money that’s “missing” due to government malfeasance. Once the Conservatives are elected to government, they should hire a dedicated, independent team of auditors to investigate all of the Trudeau Liberal-NDP government contracts and hire new, experienced crown prosecutors to bring any charges to trial.

        The Saskatchewan NDP government did something similar to the Devine progressive conservative government. The subsequent investigations completely destroyed the sask PC Party, some PC MLAs went to jail and the NDP stayed in power for many years after the scandals were revealed.

          1. There’s probably a way to harness technology to scan large data to look for anomalies. There’s also old fashioned techniques like offering amnesty to the first 5,6,or whatever number of people who come forward with hard evidence.

            Start with all sole source contracts, covid contracts, Transmountain pipeline contracts.
            I’m sure non partisan judges and juries can be found.

      2. The auditor would be asking government officials for the records, which they are supposed to be able to provide.

        Searching through bank transactions is a job for the police (if we had some)

      3. Why does the country have an Auditor General? What if any are the consequences of an audit? What is the annual cost of the department? The most important question of all, is does anybody give a damn?

  8. This is the new normal. But not to worry, all involved will take “full responsibility” and not rest until it is corrected. Until it’s old news.

  9. Nothing other than window dressing investigation will happen. Given Federal requirements to obtain emploment, the culture of corruption is too entrenched.

    1. Yes,the culture of corruption IS well entrenched, and every politician in the country aspires to be part of it.

      Every single one. And so would you if you were a member of that exclusive club. And so would I.

      We peasants can rail on about corruption because we have never partaken of it and we will never be invited to do so, so we can preach from the so-called Moral High Ground safe in the knowledge that out own morality will never be tested.

      I can live with corruption, especially if some of it filters down to us peasants, like the Mexican cops who used to take bribes to make your marijuana possession charge disappear way back in the old days.

      Our big problem is corruption only benefits the political and industrial elites.

      2. I’m surprised at your comment, D.M. I think a majority of SDAers have a clearly defined notion of what corruption is and would steer clear of tainted opportunities.

  10. At what point are the police going to get involved, day after day no leadership and the stench of corruption is beyond appalling.

    1. The police will never get involved in this stench. They answer to their paymaster, who is Trudeau.

    2. What police? the RCMP is acting as Trudeau’s and Herr Freeland’s jackbooted thugs, the OPP has it’s own problems, and the local police can’t even handle bouncy castles.

  12. Yes I remember Roy Green spending hours every weekend railing against Mike Duffy and Stephen Harper for paying back a claimed expense.

    He had all of those women who were regular guests up in arms about how terrible it was.

    (Then he turned into a pro vax guy, but that’s another story)

    1. These are not the same things at all.
      Harper’s aide committed the most unforgiveable of all statist sins.
      He used his own money, not taxpayers’.
      That is collectivist unconscionable.

  13. “Canada Border Services Agency spent $59.5 million on the cell phone app, but said she can’t be sure.”

    All Border Services lined up in random order and ride the Stomping horses until 80 million dollars appears.

  15. Did they actually spend that whole $59.5 mil on the app itself, or does that include all the servers and backend infrastructure needed nationwide to process the data collected by the app? ‘Cause a simple data-entry app like that ought to be, at most, a couple of days’ work for a programmer.

  16. Holy Jeez. Sounds like PeePee is starting to grow a backbone. Let’s hope that’s contagious.

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