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Jean-Yves Duclos, Icebreaker agreement signing, Washington, Nov 13, 2024
Icebreaker agreement signing, Washington, Nov 13, 2024. Photo: DHSgov, Public domain.

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Jean-Yves Duclos

Chairs the Public Safety committee. PSPC 2023 to 2025

"The RCMP is not investigating ArriveCAN," he told MPs. His own briefing book held a police referral on the border agency’s contracting, made a year before.

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Story · 2026-10-15 · Its own page

Duclos told MPs "the RCMP is not investigating ArriveCAN."

Three months later the Public Safety minister said the RCMP was looking into ArriveCAN.

Jean-Yves Duclos, MP for Québec Centre; President of the Treasury Board 2019 to 2021, Health 2021 to 2023, Public Services and Procurement 2023 to 2025; since June 2025 chair of the Commons committee on public safety and national security

Duclos told MPs "the RCMP is not investigating ArriveCAN.", The House of Commons chamber in West Block, Ottawa, Sep 1, 2023
The House of Commons chamber in West Block, Ottawa, Sep 1, 2023. Photo: Takipoint123, CC BY-SA 4.0.

On 28 November 2023, MPs asked the minister in charge of federal contracting who hired GC Strategies. Jean-Yves Duclos answered: "First, the RCMP is not investigating ArriveCAN." His own briefing book said the RCMP was investigating "allegations of misconduct involving contracting to procure software that would provide harassment support to employees of CBSA", and that some work under that same contract supported ArriveCAN development.

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