Descrease article font size Increase article font size The House of Commons is expected to soon reprimand a private citizen for the first time in more than 100 years over the ArriveCan app, in the latest development in a widening scandal over the nearly $60 million pandemic-era project. GC Strategies partner Kristian Firth – whose … Read more
More than a third of federal government contracts awarded to GC Strategies over the last eight years were handed out without competition, new documents show. GC Strategies — the two-person Ottawa IT firm — is at the centre of a widening scandal over its handling of the controversial ArriveCAN program. The Canada Border Services Agency … Read more
An Ottawa-based technology company suspended from working for the federal government after becoming embroiled in the ArriveCan app contract spending controversy is unloading a second office condominium it owns near Parliament Hill. Global News has learned that the second property put up for sale by Coradix Technology Consulting Ltd. at 222 Somerset St. West in … Read more
An Ottawa technology consulting company suspended from working on federal government contracts after becoming embroiled in the ArriveCan app spending controversy is unloading a $2.2 million office condominium it owns near Parliament Hill, Global News has learned. Coradix Technology Consulting Ltd. put up for sale an office suite which it owns at 222 Somerset St. … Read more
A partner at GC Strategies – the IT firm at the centre of the ArriveCan scandal – says his reputation has been damaged by “false information” and what he calls an “inaccurate” report by the auditor general. Kristian Firth, one of two men behind the company, appeared before a House of Commons committee studying the … Read more
The partners behind GC Strategies, the biggest contractor on the controversial ArriveCan app, are set to answer a subpoena this week and testify before the House of Commons operations committee. Kristian Firth will be the committee’s lone witness on Wednesday, followed by his business partner David Anthony on Thursday. Both meetings are scheduled to run … Read more
GC Strategies, the largest contractor to work on the scandal-plagued ArriveCan app, has just had its security status suspended — a key requirement for bidding on many federal contracts. The move comes as a new government tally revealed Wednesday the two-person IT firm has received tens of millions of dollars’ worth of government federal contracts. … Read more
A proposed class-action lawsuit is seeking damages as it alleges the controversial ArriveCAN app was a violation of Canadians’ rights. Consumer Law Group of Canada filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in Federal Court on Feb. 16 against the Attorney General of Canada. It centres around the “wrongful quarantine” of Quebec residents E. Sabbag and D. … Read more
The owners of GC Strategies are being summoned again to appear before the government operations committee amid the ArriveCan controversy. Wednesday’s passage of a Conservative motion came a day later than the party originally hoped for after debate around amendments stretched until the end of the allotted meeting time. Under the passed motion, GC Strategies … Read more
The Conservatives want to issue another formal summons for the owners of GC Strategies to appear before the government operations committee probing the ArriveCan controversy. If they don’t appear, Conservatives want to see the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Commons take them into custody and compel their appearance. “It is very rare. And … Read more
