Etiket: ArriveCan
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…
Ottawa sanctions companies that worked on the ArriveCan application
(Ottawa) Ottawa says it has suspended the largest contractor who worked on the application ArriveCan preventing it from bidding on or working on government contracts with security requirements. Published at…
Company linked to ArriveCAN fiasco | David Yeo called to testify again before elected officials
(Ottawa) The president of Dalian Enterprises inc. will have to explain to a parliamentary committee how he was able to be both a consultant and a civil servant for the…
Company linked to ArriveCAN fiasco | All Dalian contracts with Ottawa suspended
(Ottawa) All contracts awarded by the federal government to Dalian Enterprises inc. and which are still active are suspended. The firm’s president and founder, David Yeo, was both a private…
Company linked to ArriveCAN fiasco | Ministers worried about Dalian’s accounts in tax havens
(Ottawa) Trudeau government ministers expressed concerns after learning that one of the companies awarded contracts to design the application ArriveCAN opened bank accounts in jurisdictions recognized as tax havens. Posted…
The “troubling” practice of putting ArriveCAN contracts under the microscope
Canada’s procurement ombudsman fears that the ‘troubling’ practice of government suppliers passing off work to others, as revealed in the ArriveCAN app scandal, is in fact commonplace within other ministries.…
Company linked to ArriveCAN fiasco | “It’s worrying,” says Champagne on Dalian’s accounts in tax havens
(Ottawa) Trudeau government ministers expressed concerns after learning that one of the companies awarded contracts to design the application ArriveCAN opened bank accounts in jurisdictions recognized as tax havens. Posted…
ArriveCAN | A new company is in the crosshairs of federal authorities
(Ottawa) The front of the financial fiasco surrounding the design of the application ArriveCAN is expanding: a second company that won contracts as part of this project, and which also…
Allegations of document destruction | Information Commissioner launches own investigation into ArriveCan
(Ottawa) The Information Commissioner says she is launching a systemic investigation into the controversial ArriveCan application, highlighting allegations relating to the destruction of documents that were subject to access to…
It’s the Information Commissioner’s turn to take an interest in ArriveCAN
The Information Commissioner of Canada, Caroline Maynard, announced Friday evening the opening of an investigation into the destruction of documents covered by access to information requests in the ArriveCAN affair.…
ArriveCAN case | Senior CBSA executives accused of lying
(Ottawa) Two civil servants suspended without pay in connection with the financial fiasco surrounding the design of the application ArriveCAN accuse the senior management of the Canada Border Services Agency…
The two officials blamed for the ArriveCan scandal maintain their innocence
Two senior federal officials suspended without pay for their involvement in the explosion of costs of the ArriveCAN application proclaimed their innocence and claimed that they were being used as…
Financial fiasco linked to the ArriveCAN application | More than a million paid in bonuses to the agencies involved
(Ottawa) Singled out in a recent Auditor General’s report on the financial fiasco linked to the design of the application ArriveCANthe Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the responsible department, Public…
ArriveCAN, public administration captured by private consultants?
In political science, the term “state capture” describes situations where private interests monopolize public administration decision-making processes to hijack them for their own benefits. Many analysts believe that this phenomenon…
ArriveCAN case | The contracts of the companies of the founders of GC Strategies will be examined
(Ottawa) The contracts of all companies founded by GC Strategies associates will be examined by elected officials. The company has been in the news since being singled out last week…
ArriveCAN: an application that cost 740 times more than expected… minimum!
On Monday, a report from the Auditor General of Canada made many people angry. In this report, we learned that a mobile application called ArriveCAN had really, REALLY cost the…
ArriveCAN as expensive as 600 border services agents, union says
Rather than investing around sixty million dollars in the application ArriveCANOttawa could have hired 600 border services agents for a year, which would have given it much better performance at…
ArriveCAN scandal: contracts with GC Strategies dating back to 2010
The founders of GC Strategies, the firm at the heart of the ArriveCAN scandal, obtained millions in federal government contracts between 2010 and 2015 under another company name. • Read…