ArriveCan contractor GC Strategies will face MP questions this week
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The partners in GC Strategies, the firm contracted to build the scandal-plagued ArriveCan app, will once again appear before a parliamentary committee.
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 for three hours.
Last week, the federal government announced that GC Strategies’ security status is suspended, a key factor in being allowed to bid on many government contracts requiring a security screening.
In November 2023, Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) suspended all government contracts with GC Strategies.
In a statement, PSPC said the suspension of the security status is in place until further notice.
Security clearance is necessary for companies to bid on contracts involving the government’s most sensitive deals, such as those dealing with military planning and financial records.
Canada’s comptroller general Roch Huppé told a parliamentary committee that Ottawa-based GC Strategies and its predecessor Coredal were awarded 118 federal government contracts valued at more than $107 million since 2011.
Last month, Conservative members of the operations committee led an effort to subpoena Firth and Anthony to come to committee and once again talk about their role in the scandal-plagued app.
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