Intimidation Makes the World Go Round
The ArriveCan scandal has reared its ugly head again with explosive new testimony that threatens to further blacken the Trudeau government’s eye.
Diane Daly, a brave civil servant, recently shocked a parliamentary committee by pulling back the curtain on the government’s threats and intimidation.
Her riveting account revealed Trudeau’s scapegoating and whitewashing – all part of the government’s desperate attempts to bury their ArriveCan failures.
Lies. Coverups. Shady ethics. Wasted millions. This story has it all. And the twists keep coming as officials like Daly decide they’ve had enough of the government’s games.
Trudeau Caught in Another Lie
It seems every time Canada takes a step or two forward, there’s another mess left over by the Trudeau government that leaps us back ten steps or so. This time, it’s the ArriveCan scandal once again coming back in the form of explosive new testimony and revelations.
Remember how this simple app was supposed to be a straightforward solution by Trudeau and the liberals but then somehow managed to bungle the goal and burn through millions and millions in taxpayer money with a flash and a fizzle. Yeah we all seem to remember – and quite frankly with all the recent happenings and revelations, we can’t seem to forget either.
Trudeau however would like for you to forget; he would like for you to forget about a lot of things actually but especially when it comes to the ArriveCan scandal, he wants you to forget about the conflict of interest, about the incompetence that turned to be malicious greed, and it looks like he wants you to forget the CBSA used innocent individuals as fodder to label them as the sole reason for the ArriveCan disaster.
However, one of those innocent people defied Trudeau and his gaggle of corrupt liberals and federal institutions to tell the truth at the risk of losing her job and her career that she worked for for so long.
Trudeau Intimidates Civil Servants
Diane Daly, a civil servant and a government bureaucrat, was involved in the procurement but really had no decision making authority or power in any stage of ArriveCan. She unfortunately found herself being investigated for crimes she never committed because she didn’t lie in a testimony she never believed in.
When Diane Daly compared the ordeal to the sponsorship scandal, it wasn’t just a throwaway line—it was a damning indictment of lax oversight and questionable ethics at the heart of the Trudeau administration.
Diane was in a committee hearing recently and she shocked everyone present with her testimony and retelling of the sequence of events that got us here in the first place.
She started her story be detailing how her former director informing her that the CBSA wanted to talk to her as a simple witness, nothing more and nothing less; in spite of her gut feeling being proved in the end, she was lied to when the CBSA agents told her that no harm will ever come her way and that she will not be investigated in any shape, way, or form.
But even the time crawling into the interrogation with the CBSA was filled with intimidation tactics in the form of emails and separate meetings. Poor Dinae felt that she was being stalked and threatened when she was just doing her job.
Then she ultimately found herself cast in an incredibly Kafkaesque drama, revealing to the MPs present that she was pressured to blame two suspended civil servants, Antonio Utano and Cameron MacDonald, for what she described as a strategically orchestrated scapegoat exercise.
Can you honestly believe that? Because I sure can. As soon as it was revealed that CBSA management and officials were partying with the contractors, it was very clear how this story would eventually lead to; more conflict of interest, more greed, and more corruption.
It is very much expected that someone working in the Trudeau government is trying to place the blame on innocent people. The shocking thing here is how we got the full testimony from an honest civil servant sacrificing her career to get Canadians to know the truth.
The Allegations Continue
With a mix of dark humour and evident frustration, she described her role in procurement as limited, describing herself as just “a low-level employee, doing what I was told to do.” Canadians deserve answers, but the internal review from the CBSA was swept away, almost as if it never existed.
Utano and MacDonald legally challenged that review only to face a disappointing defeat. The pair argued they were unfairly thrown under the ArriveCan’s misfiring bus—a sentiment Daly seemed to echo.
Daly mentioned how Auditor General Karen Hogan’s report lambasted the process for awarding the contract to GC Strategies. According to Hogan, the backend documentation was so deplorable that even estimating the total cost of the app was tricky. However, $60 million is enough to raise eyebrows sky-high.
Notably, GC Strategies had initially drafted the contract before inexplicably winning it—a conflict of interest blushingly ignored by Trudeau and his liberal friends for some inexplicable reason of course.
This dark comedy continued with Daly recounting her harrowing experience: a recorded, three-and-a-half-hour interrogation by CBSA officials. Though it started innocuously enough, it soon became clear that she was being nudged toward pinning all the mismanagement woes on Utano and MacDonald.
When that failed to happen, she found herself placed on administrative leave, hinting at how cruelly the system ejects dissenters who refuse to toe the line.
The fate of civil servants like Diane Daly is telling. It reveals a system where standing up for righteousness is penalised by Trudeau and the liberals, and power games overshadow public service.
The ArriveCan scandal isn’t merely a blistering critique of a flawed app. It reflects deeper systemic issues that call for immediate attention and accountability.
