Integrity Commissioner Opens Investigation Into ArriveCan Allegations

The Public Sector Integrity Commissioner is launching an investigation into the controversial ArriveCan app, including looking into allegations that two former Canada border agency employees were reprimanded after criticizing officials at the agency. The investigation was confirmed in a written response to Conservative MP Kelly Block, who had previously sent a letter to Integrity Commissioner Harriet Solloway about the government’s management of ArriveCan. In the response, which was originally obtained by The Globe and Mail, Ms. Solloway says her office has taken note of a motion the Commons government operations committee unanimously approved last month that called on her office to investigate. “I recently informed the Clerk of the Committee, after a detailed analysis of the information available to my Office, of my decision to commence an investigation into several allegations of wrongdoing as defined under the Act in relation to the development and management of ArriveCan,” Ms. Solloway wrote in the letter....