ArriveCan app contractor and former DND employee testifies before committee

The CEO of Dalian Enterprises, one of the companies tangentially involved in the development of the ArriveCan border app, denies that multiple layers of contractors and sub-contractors were used to blur the contracting process for nefarious purposes.

The CEO of Dalian Enterprises – one of the companies tangentially involved in the development of the ArriveCan border app – denies that multiple layers of contractors and sub-contractors were used to blur the contracting process for nefarious purposes.

"I am not aware," David Yeo told parliamentarians on Tuesday.

The ArriveCan app, and its price tag, have raised questions about the federal government's contracting processes in recent weeks.

"We are the general contractor and the prime contractor for the government," Yeo told a parliamentary committee via videoconference on Tuesday. "We hire sub-contractors to do the work. So what we do is contract management, not the actual work (on the app)."

The House public accounts committee is reviewing a report by Auditor General Karen Hogan, released last month, which details the estimated cost of the much-maligned app and states "it did not deliver the best value for taxpayer dollars spent."

Meanwhile, CTV News reported earlier this month that Yeo was a Department of National Defence employee while he was also the CEO of Dalian, and that he'd been suspended.

Hogan reported Dalian had received $7.9 million for its work on the ArriveCan app.