Dalian and its partner were suspended from the federal procurement system this year after it was discovered that its president David Yeo had taken a job at the DND in 2023 without severing ties with Dalian
An internal federal review determined that an ArriveCan contractor who also worked at the Department of National Defence posed a “high risk” of transferring sensitive military information to unauthorized people, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail.
The Controlled Goods Program is linked to the Defence Production Act and requires organizations to register if they work with controlled goods, such as components and technical data, that have military or national security significance. “What I was really struck by was basically it was only the media interest that triggered a review of the admissibility of the contractor in that program after it got a lot of attention,” said Mr. Perry, who reviewed the documents obtained by The Globe.
That is just one of more than a dozen studies and investigations that are under way or completed with ties to spending on the federal mobile app launched during the pandemic, including reviews by the RCMP, the Auditor-General, parliamentary committees and watchdogs and individual departments. The department memo says the Controlled Goods Program review of Mr. Yeo’s status was launched “in light of recent adverse media coverage related to Dalian and Mr. Yeo.” The unredacted sections do not say whether Mr. Yeo did in fact breach the program’s rules.
The documents said Dalian and Coradix had a contract with the department that ran from Sept. 6, 2019, to Sept. 18, 2023. The records also state that from June, 2003, to September, 2019, Mr. Yeo was an “embedded contracted Senior Security Analyst.” The documents say specific contracts for that role were “unavailable.”
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