Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for joining us today, Mr. Weber. I'm not usually a member on this committee, but I certainly am very much interested in the issue around the ArriveCAN app.
I believe you appeared at the committee that I am on as a permanent member, the government operations and estimates committee. It was quite a long time ago, almost 18 months, that you appeared at OGGO. I was reflecting on your opening statement at that time and have had a chance to look at the one you made here at PACP. I would say that your sentiments haven't really changed too much, although we've learned an awful lot, given some of the investigations that have taken place—the Auditor General, the procurement ombud and others—so I'll probably reflect a bit more on what we heard in OGGO.
I think it would be fair to say that the development of the ArriveCAN app has been and continues to be riddled with misconduct and mismanagement. During your previous testimony at the government operations committee, you stated that the government did not consult with “frontline officers—not when the idea was first proposed, not when the app was initially developed and definitely not at any point during one of the more than 70 updates that the app had to undergo”.
If the government wasn't developing this app to assist frontline workers and keep our borders safe, can you provide the committee with any sort of comment on what you believe the point of this app was?