David Yeo, the founder and president of Dalian Enterprises, appears before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
MPs grilled the head of an IT firm over his employment with the Department of National Defence during a House committee meeting on Tuesday. MPs grilled the head of an IT firm over his employment with the Department of National Defence during a House committee meeting on Tuesday.
Dalian told CBC News earlier this month that Yeo had been hired by DND only this past September and that he took steps to address any conflict of interest concerns by agreeing to have no involvement with Dalian's DND projects and putting the company into a "blind trust."GC Strategies partner pleads ignorance while being questioned by MPs looking into ArriveCan
"I provided my signature to the staff so if there was something going on, that I would not even be aware of it," he said.Dalian was one of the contractors that worked on the ArriveCan app. Yeo appeared before the government operations committee in October to discuss ArriveCan, but presented himself as Dalian's founder and president. He didn't tell MPs on that committee that he had been hired by DND.
Conservative MP Larry Brock asked Yeo during Tuesday's committee hearing why he didn't disclose that he had been hired by DND during his October testimony.
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