Former CBSA President Contradicts Director on Who Chose IT Company to Develop Multimillion-Dollar ArriveCAN

Published on November 15, 2023

The former president of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) says he did not know that GC Strategies would be the company hired to build ArriveCAN when he decided to outsource the development of the controversial app, and denied threatening to blame a former director at the agency for the decision during a phone call. The government spending on the app that Ottawa used to track the COVID-19 vaccination status of Canadians crossing the border is currently being investigated by the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates (OGGO) and Canada’s Auditor General. The RCMP has also said they are investigating allegations of misconduct raised by the IT firm Botler AI in relation to government contracts given to GC Strategies, Coradix, and Dalian....