OTTAWA – A government bureaucrat who worked on the controversial ArriveCan app said she has felt pressured to blame two suspended civil servants for the mess and compared the app to the sponsorship scandal in testimony before MPs Wednesday.

Diane Daly, who worked on the procurement but insisted she had no decision-making authority, said she was called into an interview with Canada Border Services Agency where she felt it was clear she was being asked to blame Antonio Utano and Cameron MacDonald.

Diane Daly asked for the same consideration as Allan Cutler, a whistleblower who first raised the alarm about the sponsorship scandal.{ai:summary}<p>In the smoky haze of parliamentary testimony, Diane Daly, a government cog, testified on the ArriveCan fiasco, feeling the knife's edge of pressure to pin the blame on two sidelined civil servants. She likened the whole affair to a murky sponsorship scandal.  </p><p>Caught in the bureaucratic whirlpool, she insisted she was just a pawn in a game much bigger than herself. #politics</p>

Public servant says she felt pressured to blame suspended managers for awarding ArriveCan contract

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