It wasn’t mine.” MacDonald said Doan had threatened in a telephone conversation to finger him as the culprit, and that he had felt “incredibly threatened.”įor those who’ve blissfully forgotten, GCStrategies consists of two people who subcontract IT work to teams of experts and takes a cut off the top - in this case a cut of roughly $11 million, for an app that should have cost a fraction of that, if it was to exist at all. “Everyone knew it was his decision to make. “It was a lie that was told to this committee. MacDonald, who says he had recommended Deloitte build the app, says that’s garbage. 24 with respect to who picked GCStrategies to oversee the ArriveCAN project.ĭoan told the committee he hadn’t been “personally involved” in the decision.
The latest blasts came on Tuesday, when Cameron MacDonald, director-general of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) when the pandemic hit, alleged Minh Doan, then MacDonald’s superior and since promoted to chief technological officer of the entire federal government - pause for thought - had lied to the committee on Oct. And you start to think, maybe this godforsaken app is more key to understanding Canada’s pandemic nightmare than you first thought. But whenever the House of Commons operations committee sits down to investigate ArriveCAN, there are fireworks.
