Evidence of meeting #81 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 44th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was cbsa.
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Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
You had correspondence with CBSA prior. You had discussions with CBSA directly prior to the misconduct, and you had agreements with them.
Chief Executive Officer, Botler
We had no agreements with them. We were working with them in pure faith, which they are aware of, and their liaisons were working directly with Botler.
Liberal
Chief Technology and Security Officer, Botler
I was the individual who worked with the CBSA. I was working with the CBSA all this time. The work began as early as November 2020.
I started working with the CBSA. There's no contract. There's nothing. We stared working, and, as of February 2021, before we submitted the misconduct, we started talking about how the pilot should be implemented. They shared some non-public data with us about their harassment. We really were working very well with the CBSA without a contract, but GC Strategies was not involved at any stage.
Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
That makes sense...right? You were doing work on behalf of GC Strategies, who contracted you out to do this work.
Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
You have to work alongside the client, and the client in this case was CBSA. You had to continue this work to make that happen. That makes sense.
Chief Technology and Security Officer, Botler
Nobody ever disputed the work.
We were not working on behalf of GC Strategies, just to be clear.
Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
The CBSA didn't have a contract with you. They had a contract with GC Strategies.
Chief Executive Officer, Botler
They did not have the contract with GC Strategies either in this matter.
Liberal
Chief Executive Officer, Botler
Yes, and our identities were stolen in the execution of the TA with Dalian and Coradix.
Chief Executive Officer, Botler
We did finish the work that was our portion, yes, and we submitted that work to them.
Chief Executive Officer, Botler
They didn't implement the actual solution, which was the actual work that they were supposed to implement.
Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
When you had these meetings, were Dalian or GC Strategies involved in these meetings too?