Morning Update: ArriveCan contractor won’t address Auditor-General’s finding he set contract terms

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Good morning, The head of two-person IT staffing company GCStrategies said he and his business partner collected $2.5-million in commissions for part-time work on the federal government’s ArriveCan app project, but refused to answer questions about his involvement in a $25-million IT services contract. Kristian Firth also disputed Auditor-General Karen Hogan’s recent finding that his company received $19.1-million to work on the app project, saying it was closer to $11-million. Firth’s testimony yesterday at a House of Commons committee was his first public response to last month’s ArriveCan report from Hogan, which found that GCStrategies was directly involved in drafting...