GC Strategies

GC Strategies head says RCMP searched his property – National

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Descrease article font size Increase article font size GC Strategies partner Kristian Firth testified in the House of Commons on Wednesday that the RCMP has raided one of his properties, but said it was not related to the ArriveCan app. Firth’s IT firm is the main contractor behind the controversial pandemic-era program, but he told the … Read more

ArriveCan contractor to be grilled in House of Commons in rare reprimand – National

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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

No competition in more than a third of GC Strategies federal deals: docs – National

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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

ArriveCan contractor calls auditor general’s damning report ‘inaccurate’ – National

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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

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

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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

MPs summon owners of firm behind ArriveCan to testify or face arrest – National

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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

Conservatives eye subpoena threat for firm in ArriveCan controversy – National

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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