Commons Committee Passes Vote to Summon GC Strategies to Testify on ArriveCan

Commons Committee Passes Vote to Summon GC Strategies to Testify on ArriveCan
A smartphone set to the opening screen of the ArriveCan app is seen in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Giordano Ciampini
Matthew Horwood
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The owners of GC Strategies, the IT firm behind ArriveCan, must appear before a parliamentary committee to answer questions on the app or face arrest by the Commons’ sergeant-at-arms, after MPs on the committee passed a motion to force their testimony.

“Despite hours of Liberal filibustering, Conservatives have passed a motion forcing the owners of GC Strategies, Justin Trudeau’s favourite two-person IT firm, to appear at committee within 21 days or face arrest by the Sergeant-at-Arms, the top security official of the House of Commons,” the Tories said in a press release following the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates (OGGO) meeting on Feb. 21.