The recent procurement controversies involving ArriveCan and the federal green fund raise the possibility that more potential unethical practices are waiting to be unearthed, especially given that federal contracting is at record levels.
As a government committee continues its investigation of the COVID-19 vaccination travel app and its $54 million cost, an economics professor and a Conservative MP on the committee both say more unscrupulous contracting practices are likely in the offing.
“There isn’t any sense of a fastidiousness and ensuring that there’s a full due diligence on any of these contracts, so I would not be surprised if there are some other scandals in the woodwork, so to speak, buried in the government that have not yet been exposed,” Ian Lee from Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business told The Epoch Times.
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