iPolitics AM: Liberals unveil pitch to get plan to fast track ‘national interest’ projects through the House before it rises for the summer – iPolitics
June 12th, 2025
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In the wake of a just-released report from Auditor General Karen Hogan on GC Strategies Inc. — which, as Canadian Press reported earlier this week, found that federal organizations “failed to follow procurement and security rules” in awarding contracts worth millions of dollars to the two-person IT firm, which was heavily involved in the development and rollout of the ArriveCAN screening app — the Conservatives are set to force a full day of debate — and a vote — to call on the government to “get taxpayers their money back.”
If adopted, the motion, which stands in the name of Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett, would give the government 100 days to recoup the $64 million reportedly paid out to the firm with “no proof that any work was completed,” as well as “impose a lifetime contracting ban” on the firm and its founders, as well as “any other entities with which those individuals are affiliated.”
