In extremely rare move, House of Commons set to question ArriveCan contractor

An ArriveCan contractor who declined to answer questions during a committee appearance last month will face further questioning by MPs when he appears in front of the House of Commons this afternoon. Frith has been found in contempt of Parliament for refusing to answer questions about his company's involvement with the ArriveCan app.

MPs will, through the Speaker, ask Firth to answer the questions he avoided during his appearance at the government operations committee last month. They will also be allowed to ask followup questions. That same report found that GC Strategies was involved in developing requirements that were later used for an ArriveCan contract. That contract — valued at $25 million — was later awarded to GC Strategies, the report says.In a scathing new report, Canada's auditor general says the final cost of the ArriveCan app is 'impossible to determine' due to poor record-keeping by the Canada Border Services Agency.

The most recent case was in 2021, when Iain Stewart, the then-president of the Public Health Agency of Canada, appeared before the House after the agency failed to turn over documents to a parliamentary committee relating to the firing of two scientists from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.This page from the House of Commons journals shows the Speaker reprimanding R.C. Miller for refusing to answer questions before the House, back in 1913. Miller was then imprisoned.

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