Evidence of meeting #109 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was company.
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Liberal
Parm Bains Liberal Steveston—Richmond East, BC
Is it simply more of a public safety or criminal record check, and these sorts of things?
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Partner, GC Strategies
It's a criminal record check. I believe—you'd have to ask the RCMP what their process is—it's a full family history check as well.
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Liberal
Parm Bains Liberal Steveston—Richmond East, BC
No, that's your process. I'm talking about your process.
You're simply submitting these people's information to other public safety agencies to ensure that they are good citizens and don't have any criminal records, and that's it.
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Liberal
Parm Bains Liberal Steveston—Richmond East, BC
You're not verifying who these subcontractors are with respect to what skill set they have when they're going to work on government contracts in which important sensitive information is shared.
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Conservative
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Liberal
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Conservative
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Liberal
Parm Bains Liberal Steveston—Richmond East, BC
That's all. I'll save it for the next time. Thank you.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kelly McCauley
Thanks, Mr. Bains.
We'll have Mrs. Vignola for two and a half minutes, please.
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Bloc
Julie Vignola Bloc Beauport—Limoilou, QC
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Anthony, you started working for Veritaaq in 2005. Later, while still at Veritaaq, you met Mr. Firth. Did you also meet Caleb White at Veritaaq?
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Bloc
Julie Vignola Bloc Beauport—Limoilou, QC
Okay.
You met Colin Wood, who founded Coradix Technology Consulting, where David Yeo was or used to be a director.
Is Caleb White still a partner at GC Strategies?
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Bloc
Julie Vignola Bloc Beauport—Limoilou, QC
He left without informing you or telling you why. Just like that, he walked out the door and decided to miss out on millions of dollars in contracts.
According to the Ottawa Business Journal, in 2018, your company ranked among the top four in terms of growth. It grew by 676.4% over three years, from your company's creation in 2015 to 2018.
Did Mr. White just walk out the door without any warning?
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Partner, GC Strategies
No, Caleb was fully upfront with us and let us know why he was leaving. He wanted to go and pursue other options.
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Bloc
Julie Vignola Bloc Beauport—Limoilou, QC
Okay. So it was just a matter of pursuing other options.
Has Wes Jarvis ever been involved in GC Strategies?
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Bloc
Julie Vignola Bloc Beauport—Limoilou, QC
Okay.
Did I understand correctly that Mr. Jarvis worked for Lixar, and for BDO when BDO took over Lixar?