How Pretendians and Grifters Infiltrated a Billion Dollar Federal Strategy

The Hatchet · Jan 17, 2025 · 24m

You’ve probably heard some of the controversy swirling around ArriveCan; how one of the contracts to help build it went to a company owned by a federal government employee. And especially how the whole thing cost $60 million to make, even though, you know, it was a pretty basic app.

But ArriveCan was also the beneficiary of a specific strategy that the federal government has been implementing for nearly three decades. It’s known as the Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business.

And the idea is simple. A certain percentage of government contracts should go to businesses owned and operated…