Email from ArriveCAN Contractor Was Forwarded to Justice Department, Official Reveals

The email pertains to concerns that Coradix and Dalian had used the names of Botler AI’s founders without their knowledge, and received payments from Ottawa.

A smartphone set to the opening screen of the ArriveCan app is seen in a photo illustration made in Toronto on June 29, 2022. The Canadian Press/Giordano Ciampini

During a committee meeting on the ArriveCAN scandal on Nov. 9, an official from Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) confirmed that the agency had forwarded an email from two subcontractors to the Department of Justice, as the two had lied about their work relationship with an IT company co-founder.

Conservative MP Larry Brock revealed during the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates that Botler AI co-founder Rikita Dutt had raised concerns in a May 10 email to Public Services and Procurement Canada Supply Specialist Anita Chan.