During question period in the House of Commons on Friday, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre pressed the Liberals to explain a $1.2-million government contract given to tech company ThinkOn Inc. relating to the development of the ArriveCAN app, whose CEO told the Globe and Mail that they never worked on it nor received any money from the Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA).

"So if his company didn't get the money. Who did?" Poilievre asked.

This revelation came the same day as a House of Commons operations committee meeting which was held to discuss the development costs involved in creating the government's ArriveCAN app two years ago, which is set to cost $54 million by March 2023.

ArriveCAN was first launched as a voluntary app in April 2020 as a way of collecting personal information needed by public health officials to enforce quarantine rules. The app was made mandatory for everyone entering Canada by air in November 2020.

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