Emails on ArriveCan 'destroyed' by Border Services Agency amid criminal investigation
Minh Doan, then-chief information officer for CBSA, claimed technical difficulties destroyed thousands of ArriveCan emails. He could face two years in jail under access to information laws.
Emails tied to the controversial $60 million ArriveCan app were destroyed by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) just days after they were sought under an Access To Information (ATI) request, according to records obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
The deletion, whether accidental or not, occurred amid an ongoing police investigation into fraudulent billing connected to ArriveCan contracts.
On February 27, Minh Doan, then-chief information officer for CBSA, claimed that his government-issued laptop experienced technical issues, resulting in the "accidental" deletion of key emails. This happened only four days after Doan was told to search for records in response to an ATI request for communications with a contractor now under RCMP investigation.
Under the Access To Information Act, it’s illegal to deliberately destroy records, with penalties including up to two years in jail and a $10,000 fine. During June 5 testimony, Doan maintained that file transfer issues between laptops led to the data loss. Conservative MP Larry Brock was skeptical: “You are very good at telling lies,” he charged.
ArriveCan managers later "miraculously" retrieved thousands of previously deleted emails, producing 1,806 pages of correspondence. That contrasts earlier testimony which detailed those emails were gone without a trace.
GC Strategies, a two-man firm that subcontracted all work while taking a 30% cut, is now under audit following accusations of massive overbilling.
“We invoiced monthly,” Kristian Firth, managing partner at GC Strategies, told MPs April 17. “At any time we could have been stopped.”
Auditor General Karen Hogan called the bookkeeping “the worst I have seen” and criticized the overspending, confirming a full audit of GC Strategies.
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COMMENTS
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Robin Naismith commented 2024-10-31 15:33:58 -0400I can also think of a couple music groups from the past with good songs that had a little political stuff -
Bruce Atchison commented 2024-10-31 14:39:12 -0400This reminds me of the song “Power Play” by Steppenwolf. The strangle hold on people’s mind is loosening as reality slaps their faces.
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Robin Naismith commented 2024-10-31 14:12:53 -0400Yeah Bruce,some peoples out there are still drinking the government kool-aid and it ends up keeping them sub-serviant to the government taskmasters,but I think with time more peoples will start to wake up and they will break their shackles and once that occurs,then they will have the freedom to turn on their taskmasters and destroy them for good -
Bruce Atchison commented 2024-10-31 14:07:34 -0400The sad truth is that most people are taken up with bread and circuses. As long as they have socialist platforms, they won’t see the looming danger.
This reminds me of the prophecy in Daniel’s book in the Bible. Babylon was the head of gold. Persia was the arms and chest of silver. Greece was the belly of bronze. Rome was the legs of iron. I believe today is when the feet of iron mixed with clay is fulfilled. Globalists have no king but they associate with one another in a way never seen before. I’m awaiting that rock not cut out by human hands to roll over that image and blow it to smithereens. -
Robin Naismith commented 2024-10-31 14:04:07 -0400Uh huh Bruce, what you’ve said is indeed true indeed and I do think more and more peoples have woken up or are waking up from the government matrix -
Bruce Atchison commented 2024-10-31 13:59:10 -0400I believe this global takeover is different. I used to think it was all conspiracy theory 20 years ago but now I see that those people were right all along. This gives me hope that if we keep sounding the alarm and providing proof of what we say, we can turn more people around. It’s one reason I donate to Rebel News.
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Robin Naismith commented 2024-10-31 11:31:48 -0400That may only be partially true Howard,but most of the time with nasty dictators it’s just a matter of time before they fall and by that I mean them dying in very bad ways -
Howard Mirkin commented 2024-10-31 09:33:01 -0400Robin, cowards they might well be but they are cowards with believing followers who will do any dirty work. But they are attempting to gain total control without a big mess as I mentioned earlier. If they can get much of the world to buy into digital IDs and link those IDs to a central programmable digital currency, there will be little to stop them. The World Bank has been developing a Single World Currency for some time. This is the final step. Here is what is going on in individual countries “March 2024, over 130 countries were actively engaged in CBDC research with 3 countries, territories or currency unions having launched CBDCs, and 36 implementing pilot programs.”
Then there are the smart or 15 minute cirties which a number of countries and cities are developing. I am certain that they will actually be more like concentration camps, limiting mobility and keeping people in small groups so they can be destroyed by cutting all road and electronics, then starving them to death. Right out of “1984”. There are many food disruptions all the time, but then they suddenly stop (or are not reported) and other events take place which could be part of their agenda. In the Netherlands the government forced many farmers to stop producing. That country was a top 5 food exporter, mainly to African nations. The USA is n longer a net food exporter. Sri Lanka’s former PM mandated that they replace fertilizer with organic farming all at once, but the latter takes 5 years to produce. The country went bankrupt and is still that way. Only loans from India keep some food in the bellies of the people. The dots are there but most people do not connect them. -
Robin Naismith commented 2024-10-31 09:06:13 -0400I get what you are saying and I have certainly heard about these shady organizations that maybe pulling the stings for the whole world,but these so called individuals don’t seem to have the balls to come forward to admit there wrong doings and it’s because the load of them are Cowards -
Howard Mirkin commented 2024-10-31 08:59:05 -0400Listen watch. No need to believe me. Here it is in thir own words. Trans-humanist Harari is the right hand of Klaus Schwab and he is talking about a massive depopulation.
https://slaynews.com/news/wef-depopulation-save-elites-drown-rest/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter -
Robin Naismith commented 2024-10-31 08:49:10 -0400Yeah Howard,there Greedy Scumbags -
Howard Mirkin commented 2024-10-31 08:20:56 -0400I suspect that all they cared about was getting paid off. -
Robin Naismith commented 2024-10-31 04:35:55 -0400Clearly these individuals in high up positions seem very Stupid and Un-Educated at the same time and the reason I say this is because if these individuals had maybe taken the time to really learn about the ins & outs of computer usage,then there would of been ways of recovering lost info & emails at the same time,but you’d literally have to have IT expertise that these fools didn’t have -
Howard Mirkin commented 2024-10-31 03:21:45 -0400My only old program is Eudora 7.
I and of course other people have been warning of the threat from the far, far left for some time. Dr. Meryl Nass at substack and others there have been sounding alarms longer than I. People think I am a conspiracy theorist. How wrong they are. The intended world takeover is not a fantasy – modern technology makes it so doable that it has become a work in progress. This is how simple it is :
Impose a programmable Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) on everyone by :
1. Assigning everyone a digital ID (many have volunteered)
2. Assigning everyone a behavioral score like ESG (like China)
3. Link steps 1 and 2 to the programmable CBDC. Presto!! You are now 1000% enslaved.
Then add in massive surveillance 24/7 indoors and out, declining ESG scores for those who try to get out of the trap. Then people can easily be forced to eat bugs, have inadequate clothing and die from cold, become cannon fodder in various wars, get poisonous vaccines with a smile, and happuly submit to euthanasia. They will be subject to the best of Stalin and Mao – mass starvation on a scale never dreamed of. This is just the brief version of Human Depopulation 101. People fall for inducements like high speed transactions and other cashless society conveniences. At first they think that if they obey they will be spared from punishment. Wrong. Many people have fallen for the fake “Climate Change Will Destroy the Earth” narrative. The left has indoctrinated millions into believing that nonsense despite not a single prediction of a climate disaster has come to fruition. The WEF (Yuval Noah Harari) has referred to people as useless consumers and other similar terms. King Charles is an insane depopulationist. Bill Gates wants to poison the world with vaccines and laugh at people eating insects, etc., etc. . What it really means is when a useful idiot becomes a useless idiot he or she or it becomes expendable, and expendability means death by starvation, war or disease (including poisoned vaccines).
The tentacles of the WEF/UN/WHO are into every aspect of life. When it seems that they have failed at one task,. they have many others (See the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in UN Agenda 30. Goal 1 is to end poverty. Solution – grow more food. But for the globalists it means kill humans and grow less food. One can apply the same rationale to all of the SDGs.
How can this be stopped? I am not sure it can. Many countries and institutions in those countries have been infiltrated by the would-be masters of the universe.
Some things that could be done to delay include making laws that make it illegal for any financial institute to issue CBDCs to individuals. (HR 5403/118th Congress). Refuse to volunteer for digital IDs. Make it illegal to ban cash. The Democrats in the U.S. are against this which shows what side they are really on. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2024-10-30 21:08:20 -0400Thanks for telling me about your computer experience. That was nice of you to donate those. But I’m always wary of losing my old and faithful programs.
We all must sound the alarm about the WEF, WHO, and all the UN programs designed to rob us of freedom and initiative. Let’s be rams and stir up the sheep. -
Howard Mirkin commented 2024-10-30 18:49:02 -0400Some years ago I donated all my old computers to a temple where they have a computer repair school to earn some money. Then I bought a notebook, upped the RAM to 20GB and have used nothing else since. I have no need for the data on the floppies or the others which are about 30 yars old, but thanks for the info. A freespoke.com search for Cleese and Compaq located one of the Compaq videos in seconds. Thanks for that tip also. I never got into programming although I tried it a bit way back when, but don’t remember any of it. I got more interested in computer security, research and published a security newsletter to a small group for a few years. Now I spend a lot of time trying to make people aware of the evil that is coming all too fast out of Davos, NYC (UN Hq) and Geneva, etc. . -
Bruce Atchison commented 2024-10-30 17:13:12 -0400Those 5.25-inch floppies are fragile but the 3.5-inch ones are better. You might still be able to buy an external floppy drive on Amazon. That’s what I have. I also have some old early Pentium PCs with 3.5-inch drives. And the oldest computer I have is a Vic-20 with a cassette tape back-up drive. It might actually be worth something in the distant future.
Thanks for the links to the Cleese videos too. He also did commercials for Compaq computers. Those too are funny but not at the level the tape back-up one was.
You also might like the meme somebody about home sweet home in Basic.
10: home
20: sweet
30: goto 10 -
Howard Mirkin commented 2024-10-30 14:56:37 -0400I still have a bunch of both 5.25 and 3.5", but nothing to use them. The Cleese video is here – good one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgxgYL5P4z4
or here: https://vimeo.com/121357243
I remember getting infected with the Jerusalem boot virus and watching the files bloat until there was no more disk space. Had my own tape backup trauma, but luckily I didn’t delete the originals. Those were fun days. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2024-10-30 14:10:05 -0400I still have 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy disks. The lowest capacity disks I have are 120 KB. It used to seem so large back in the 80s and 90s but it’s puny now.
By the way, John Cleese did a hilarious commercial video about tape back-up trauma. Search for it on YouTube. We all need something to laugh about in these dismal times. -
Howard Mirkin commented 2024-10-30 13:51:09 -0400Some of us even remember (tho we’d prefer not to :) ) floppy disks, 2.5" disks, 3.5" disks, CD-ROMs and 500 kb of RAM. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2024-10-30 13:31:24 -0400Howard nailed it. We have so many back-up methods and formats. In the old days, magnetic media and optical media could become corrupted. But with all the methods Howard mentioned, that “lost e-mail” excuse is as lame as a slug.
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Howard Mirkin commented 2024-10-30 02:42:50 -0400To add to Bruce Atchison’s comment below, when dealing with important computerized data, multiple/automatic backups should be mandatory. Were they? Without trying to get too detailed, there are numerous and effective means of data backup, for example,
>Internal Hard Drives
>Solid State Drives (SSD)
>External Hard Drives
>Portable Hard Drives
>Network Storage (NAS)
>Memory Cards
>USB Flash Drives
> Cloud Storage
Some of these devices use software for making automatic, scheduled backups of the data.
Were any of these devices required? If not, why not? Were any of these devices used? If not, why not? The data searches/transfers could have been done using the backups or the original data files. There is no good reason for a “computer glitch” to lose the data if backups had been made. Having backups would have squelched the data transfer glitch excuse. There is also no indication that any professional data recovery techniques were even attempted. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2024-10-29 19:09:48 -0400I wish there was stronger legislation to deal with e-mail erasure. I’ve used e-mail for the past 19 years and I know it takes volition to lose messages. In the old days, floppy disks could become corrupted. Same with optical media. But external disk drives retain data well. And there is a chance of some idiot deleting a folder in which e-mails are stored but that rarely happens. Furthermore, look at the timeline between the request and the suppose loss of e-mails. Doesn’t look like an accident to me.