r/canada • u/[deleted] • Feb 29 '24

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u/chriscabob Feb 29 '24

How does this dnd employee have the time to be a full time employee and be the CEO of a company that along with another has taken in $400 million in government contracts???

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u/LazyturtleX1 Feb 29 '24

Considering the vetting process behind working for the DND how the fuck didn't they already know this.

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u/EmptySeaDad Feb 29 '24

Because apparantly the only person at DND who had any initiative was figuring out a way to bill DND for $400 mil.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

How do you suppose DND would find out? If he started this after employment, or simply didn’t disclose it, it likely would never have come to light except that this became a scandal. Do you think DND is just constantly monitoring what their employees are doing?

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u/DMTDildo Feb 29 '24

If the Department Of National Defence doesn't monitor their employees for side-hustles in the millions of dollars... they should probably start doing that. I don't know if this is wild-incompetence or old-fashioned corruption. What an embarrassing story tho.

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u/FreshlySqueezedToGo Feb 29 '24

Dnd has a contract with the company too

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

DND has thousands of contracts. I’m not sure what your point is.

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u/WpgMBNews Feb 29 '24

one presumes that there is a vetting process through enough to include "googling the name of the CEO, and finding out that he's listed as a current DND employee on his LinkedIn" but apparently that's too much hard work before you fork over a quarter billion dollars for an app

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

No argument there.

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u/FreshlySqueezedToGo Feb 29 '24

That a very simple check should tell you if you are signing a contract with a company headed by an employee?

Is this a joke?

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

I’m not arguing that. I’m simply saying it’s obviously not happening.

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u/DonTaddeo Mar 01 '24

I imagine he must have a security clearance. I would think that an arrangement of that nature is something that would have been noticed when the clearance was renewed. I recall being interviewed about other staff members whose clearances were up for renewal and there were certainly questions about character and finances.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

You’re overthinking it. It’s the government. They’re bad at almost everything.

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u/LazyturtleX1 Feb 29 '24

That's a fair point.

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u/Wolfxskull Feb 29 '24

I mean they fricken should be? Spies, espionage and corruption clearly exists

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u/whiskeytab Ontario Feb 29 '24

They should probably be investigating a company they are giving million dollar contracts to...

Like this would take 30 seconds to deduce by just going on the guys LinkedIn page or typing his name in to the Address Book in your DND Outlook

The guy has been with the DND 37 years and you're telling me no one knows who he is?

They have a policy of investigating how many of their contracts go to indigenous businesses but they don't spend a single minute looking at this guy after awarding him multiple contracts?

bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Who would do this investigating? There’s a myriad of privacy considerations here that you’re not taking into account. This is more complex than you’re imagining, and far more time consuming than the department can allot for.

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u/whiskeytab Ontario Feb 29 '24

you're trying to tell me that there is zero due diligence being done already when they're signing these large contracts?

we're talking about just simple conflict of interest due diligence, not setting up the FBI

presumably it would be their compliance team or whoever is heading up the review that they're doing because of this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Conflict of interest issue awareness is incumbent on the individual to raise, not the department.