Kristian Firth, a partner with GC Strategies, appears before a House of Commons committee on Oct. 22, 2022.
MPs are looking to bring an ArriveCan contractor before the House of Commons to be formally rebuked by Speaker Greg Fergus. At a separate committee hearing in March, Firth declined to answer certain questions from MPs. MPs are looking to bring an ArriveCan contractor before the House of Commons to be formally rebuked by Speaker Greg Fergus.breach of MPs' privilege when GC Strategies' Kristian Firth declined to answer certain questions during a committee appearance earlier this month.
Barrett said that by refusing to answer MPs' questions, Firth was "obstructing the work of Parliament and its committees." An auditor general report found that the soaring cost of the project — estimated at roughly $60 million — was in part due to the government's over-reliance on outside contractors like GC Strategies.GC Strategies partner pleads ignorance while being questioned by MPs looking into ArriveCanThat same report found that GC Strategies was involved in developing requirements that were later used for an ArriveCan contract.
President of the Public Health Agency of Canada Iain Stewart, right, approaches the bar in the House of Commons to be admonished by Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, June 21, 2021. If Barrett's motion passes, Firth will be the third private citizen to be admonished since 1913. The most recent case was in 2021, when the then-president of the Public Health Agency of Canada appeared before the House after the agency failed to turn over documents to a committee relating to the firing of two scientists from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
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