Parliamentary Committee Says Government Should Ban Contracting by Federal Employees

The House of Commons public accounts committee has voted to call on the government to ban federal employees from taking on contract work from governmental departments. The vote comes as the committee’s investigation into ArriveCan continues. “It should be disallowed, that you have somebody making money both as a government employee and an external contractor,” said Conservative MP Garnett Genuis at the committee meeting on March 6, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. Liberal MPs on the committee opposed the motion, which asked the federal government to “prohibit any government employee from simultaneously working as an external contractor.” The motion follows revelations that Dalian Enterprises CEO David Yeo, whose company worked on the $59.5 million ArriveCan application, was also a longtime civilian employee with the Department of National Defence. Dalian received $8.1 million in contracts to work on ArriveCan....