Government Operations committee  This is Mr. MacDonald, mostly.

Government Operations committee  The invoices were issued by Dalian, so the work—

Government Operations committee  They're on the letterhead of Dalian. My personal résumé, which I validated, that has been forged is on both their letterheads. It's Dalian and Coradix letterhead.

Government Operations committee  On my end, I have a list of IP addresses that are under my personal investigation, and I can provide them to you.

Government Operations committee  Well....

Government Operations committee  I believe the only reason that ghost contractors exist is to funnel the funds into accounts that are not traceable. That's the only logical reason. It's very difficult to understand how this government contracting worked, but what we realize is that it's more difficult to do thin

Government Operations committee  There are actually few bad apples in the public service, as you mentioned. It's absolutely a very tiny faction within our public service, and I believe there are two reasons. One is personal benefit and the second is extortion. If you do something wrong and you have basically som

Government Operations committee  That's our question too. We really don't know, and it's very difficult to believe that the system is designed in a way that this shouldn't happen. Actually what I'm seeing with all the subcontracting is that the system unfortunately is designed for this to happen.

Government Operations committee  We don't know about that. That's correct.

Government Operations committee  Sure.

Government Operations committee  Absolutely.

Government Operations committee  We both have very serious concerns about the testimony that President O'Gorman made two days ago. She specifically mentioned that the CBSA is “working with the RCMP” to obtain Botler's records. This, to us, is a very alarming attempt to obstruct justice. CBSA is not entitled...an

Government Operations committee  I believe he received a promotion, and he's now the assistant deputy minister of public health. I think he's in charge of the entire COVID task force.

Government Operations committee  That is not correct. GC Strategies was the entity that said the contract will go through Dalian. It was not the CBSA. The CBSA told us we have to work with GC Strategies, and GC Strategies will be the entity that will subcontract our work.

Government Operations committee  GC Strategies just came and said that this is how the contract was done, but that is correct. We were supposed to be the subcontractor of GC Strategies, but then Dalian showed up out of nowhere.