Parliamentary Committee Will Issue Subpoenas For Reluctant ArriveCan Witnesses, Chair Says

Published on February 13, 2024

Following the auditor general’s report on mismanagement of the ArriveCan application, the chair of the Committee on Government Operations and Estimates (OGGO) warned that MPs will issue subpoenas compelling committee testimony from reluctant ArriveCan witnesses. “We will be ordering past and present ministers of public safety, public works, and Treasury Board to answer for ArriveCan mismanagement and waste,” Conservative MP Kelly McCauley said in the House of Commons on Feb. 12. “GC Strategies, which we have now learned was paid $20 million, will be issued a summons ordering its appearance. The committee will call every witness and compel every document to hold the government to account on ArriveCan.”...

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