The House unanimously passed a motion declaring Kristian Firth to be in contempt of Parliament
to be censured for not answering parliamentarians’ questions, in what will be a rare use of the House ’s power to issue formal reprimands.
Mr. Firth is the managing partner of GCStrategies, a two-person information-technology staffing company that received more funding than any other contractor to work on ArriveCan, the mobile app for cross-border travellers that the government launched early in the pandemic.in February that the app cost $59.5-million, and that GCStrategies had received $19.1-million of that.
Arianne Reza, the deputy minister of the Procurement Department, told MPs that when bid material is being prepared contractors are asked to fill out an attestation saying whether they have been involved in the process. If they have, she said, they are precluded from bidding on the work. MPs spent most of the day in the House of Commons on Monday debating a motion from Conservative MP Michael Barrett that called on Mr. Firth to be found in contempt and summoned to the bar for his handling of these questions.
The new motion says Mr. Firth will be summoned to the bar on the afternoon of April 17, after Question Period. The motion says the House will “find Kristian Firth to be in contempt for his refusal to answer certain questions and for prevaricating in his answers to other questions.” It adds that Mr. Firth will receive an admonishment from the Speaker and will respond to several rounds of questions from MPs.
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