Etiket: ArriveCan
ArriveCAN: RCMP searched the home of Kristian Firth, partner at GC Strategies
The ArriveCAN saga continues. During a historic appearance in Ottawa on Wednesday, Kristian Firth, one of two partners at GC Strategies, confirmed that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) searched…
ArriveCAN: RCMP raided home Kristian Firth, partner at GC Strategies
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) searched the house of Kristian Firth, one of the two partners of GCStrategies, who had won the initial contract for the development of the…
Company related to ArriveCAN | Search at the home of one of GC Strategies’ associates
Sorry, your browser does not support videos (Ottawa) The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) carried out a search on Tuesday at the home of Kristian Firth, one of two associates…
ArriveCAN Scandal | First in over 100 years: GC Strategies’ Kristian Firth to testify in Commons
(Ottawa) MPs lost patience Monday with the omissions of Kristian Firth, one of two partners at GC Strategies, during his testimony in parliamentary committee last month. They unanimously adopted a…
ArriveCAN Scandal | Will Ottawa be able to recover the overpaid amounts?
(Ottawa) The federal government wants to try to recover the money overpaid for the development of the application ArriveCAN, whose bill ended up approaching 60 million. This is what the…
ArriveCAN cheaper than paper, says CBSA
(Ottawa) Although it cost nearly $60 million, ArriveCAN costs three times less than paper, defends the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Significant cost overruns surrounded the development of this controversial…
ArriveCAN scandal | An organization wants to take charge of the directory of indigenous businesses
(Ottawa) There is a lot of cleaning up to be done in the criteria for defining Indigenous businesses and in the way of applying them, according to a national organization…
Company related to ArriveCAN | Dalian founder also disputes Auditor General’s figures
(Ottawa) After the partners of GC Strategies, it is the turn of the founder of Dalian Enterprises inc. to challenge the Auditor General’s figures. David Yeo said his firm had…
Company related to ArriveCAN | Does Dalian still meet the criteria for indigenous businesses?
(Ottawa) Dalian Enterprises Inc., which obtained one of the largest sums for the development of ArriveCAN, is once again under the microscope of federal authorities. The Department of Indigenous Services…
ArriveCAN | Anatomy of a scandal | The Press
A multitude of investigations, two-employee firms receiving tens of millions in federal contracts, indigenous businesses that may ultimately not be indigenous, and civil servants paid twice. You are lost in…
The vice-president of GC Strategies pleads ignorance in the ArriveCAN file
Darren Anthony, GC Strategies’ second partner, provided few answers to questions from parliamentarians in Ottawa on Thursday. The vice-president of the firm that won the initial contract for the development…
Company related to ArriveCAN | Laborious testimony from the second partner of GC Strategies
Sorry, your browser does not support videos (Ottawa) Darren Anthony, one of two GC Strategies partners, admitted not having read the Auditor General’s report on cost overruns ofArriveCAN even if…
ArriveCAN: Auditor General’s figures are wrong, says GC Strategies
GC Strategies, the firm that won the initial contract for the development of the ArriveCAN application, was paid millions less than what the Auditor General of Canada, Karen Hogan, predicted…
New investigation into ArriveCAN launched
The scandal surrounding the ArriveCAN app, which monopolized political attention in Ottawa last month, is far from over. The financial fiasco is the subject of yet another investigation, this time…
ArriveCAN | Integrity Commissioner opens investigation
(Ottawa) The financial fiasco surrounding ArriveCAN will be the subject of a new investigation, this time by the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner. Harriett Solloway will look into allegations of wrongdoing…
Company linked to the ArriveCAN scandal | GC Strategies has been awarded contracts for three other applications
(Ottawa) GC Strategies, the consulting firm at the heart of the financial fiasco surrounding the application ArriveCANalso won contracts from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to develop three other…
Company related to ArriveCAN | Dalian comes to the defense of its president
(Ottawa) The president and founder of Dalian Enterprise Inc., David Yeo, did not receive double remuneration from the government as an employee and as a contractor, according to the firm…
Companies related to ArriveCAN | Other information on GC Strategies transferred to the RCMP
(Ottawa) The Ministry of Public Services and Procurement in turn transferred information about GC Strategies to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) after conducting its own investigation into the allegations…
Company related to ArriveCAN | GC Strategies excluded from all federal contracts
(Ottawa) GC Strategies has just lost its federal government security clearance. This is a new tile for the company at the heart of the financial fiasco surrounding the application ArriveCAN.…
The federal government sanctioned the companies that worked on ArriveCan
Ottawa says it has suspended the largest contractor who worked on the ArriveCan app by preventing him from bidding or working on government contracts with security requirements. Public Services and…