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.”
The figure was offered by Mount Royal member of parliament Anthony Housefather, who serves as the parliamentary secretary to Public Services and Procurement Minister Helena Jaczek.
Housefather was responding to a question from Conservative MP and health critic Michael Barrett. Barrett cited a Globe and Mail report about how tech experts were “confounded” by ArriveCan’s $54 million price tag, 36 times the $1.5 million they estimated a similar project in the private sector would cost.
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