Chair, I'll make a few introductory comments. The email is on its way from the whip's office.
Thank you, Mr. Weber, for sharing with us. Again, it's consistent with testimony that we've heard from many about what a broken process ArriveCAN has been from start to finish.
I will note in particular your observations that internal investigations are arbitrary and that there has been a problem of retaliation against those who make complaints. At the government operations committee, we had two public servants make some allegations in response to questions they were asked. Almost immediately after their testimony, they were told there was an investigation against them. They were subsequently suspended without pay following their testimony to a parliamentary committee.
It raises significant concerns about our ability to get to the bottom of matters related to arrive scam when there is an appearance of retaliation specifically against witnesses when they give testimony critical of the government and others within CBSA.
I'm sure we'll be able to come back to you shortly.
Earlier in this meeting, I tried to move a motion to summon Mr. David Yeo to this committee. In another outrageous revelation related to the arrive scam app, we found that a contractor's company, Dalian—another two-person company that made off like bandits during arrive scam—got $7.9 million. We still don't have any sense of what they actually did, if anything, for that money. They got $7.9 million while David Yeo, one of the two people working at the company, was also an employee at the Department of National Defence. The Department of National Defence had contracts with Dalian as well. The department and their relevant agencies report not knowing enough about who works for them to have been able to notice this problem earlier.
Recognizing the urgency of the matter and the need to get to the bottom of it, I do want to give my government colleagues one more opportunity to do the right thing. We tried to move this motion before. They blocked our ability to do so. They have fewer procedural tools available to them now, because it is the matter at hand, so I will move the following:
That the committee issue a summons for Mr. David Yeo to appear before committee within seven days and for at least two hours.
I hope we'll be able to have the quick support of the committee to get this done and be able to proceed with that summons.