Minister of Procurement Does Not Say Who Hired GC Strategies to Build ArriveCAN

Minister of Public Services and Procurement Jean-Yves Duclos repeatedly refused to answer questions from Conservative MPs on who at the Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) was responsible for hiring GC Strategies to develop the controversial ArriveCAN app. “Who at the CBSA was responsible for the decision to hire GC Strategies? Will you undertake, for the fifth time now of me asking this question, to give us that answer?” asked Conservative MP Larry Brock on Nov. 27. “Will you undertake to ask CBSA who contracted GC Strategies?” responded Mr. Duclos. The House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates (OGGO) has spent weeks investigating how the three companies of GC Strategies, Dalian, and Coradix received millions in taxpayer dollars to develop the ArriveCAN app, which critics say could have been developed for a fraction of its $54 million cost....