Auditor general’s office fires 2 for side contracts with feds – National

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada’s auditor general’s office has fired two of its employees and is investigating a third after it says it became aware they had a second source of income through contracts with the federal government, the office confirmed on Wednesday. According to a statement from the Office of … Read more

ArriveCan contractor GC Strategies will face MP questions this week – National

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

Ottawa suspends ArriveCan firm’s security status for some federal contracts – National

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

RCMP examining auditor general’s report into ArriveCAN process failures – National

The RCMP says it’s examining the auditor general’s scathing report earlier this week into the federal government’s management of the ArriveCAN app, which found “repeated” failures. Auditor general Karen Hogan appeared before a parliamentary committee Wednesday and said she met with the RCMP before her report was released and “talked to them in generalities about … Read more