I don’t think the answer is very difficult. it takes expertise and competence to do software engineering. can you imagine the affirmative action hires working on obamacare.
I can tell you from experience, affirmative action hires cannot write code.
Lowest bidder?
I wasn't aware that Canada nationally or Ontario provincially utilize affirmative action.
The problem wasn't the coders anyway, it was the management and in particular micro-management from HHS.
AA hires being mainly proficient in Ebonics, it’s no surprise they can’t do IT coding, which is based on and a derivative of proper English and has very demanding, unforgiving syntax rules. IOW a programmer gets exactly what she asks for in proper computer language and syntax, not by any means what she wants and not necessarily anything that makes sense.