Former CBSA Managers Suspended Amid ArriveCan Scandal Ask Judge to Rescind Investigation Report

Published on February 20, 2024

Two former managers with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) who were suspended without pay related to ArriveCan probes are attempting to quash a “scandalous” CBSA report that alleges potential criminal wrongdoing, according to Federal Court records. The two former CBSA managers, Cameron MacDonald and Antonio Utano, asked on Feb. 16 that a federal judge rescind a 2023 “Preliminary Statement Of Facts” report by CBSA that led to their suspensions. “The applicants were denied procedural fairness during the investigation by being denied the details of the complaint which triggered the investigation and by being excluded from the investigation,” their lawyer wrote to the Federal Court, according to Blacklock’s Reporter....