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A former policeman killed 34 people including 22 children in a gun rampage at a daycare centre in Thailand on Thursday
On October 20, 2022, more than 50 people were killed, and hundreds more injured, during anti-government protests in Chad.
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion into Ukraine. Since then, there have been domestic and international movements of the Ukrainian population, including to Canada given our country’s strong Ukrainian-Canada community.
Budget 2019 provided funding for the replacement of the Alexandra Bridge, the rehabilitation and ongoing maintenance of the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge, and the Chaudière Crossing. It also provided direction for refreshing technical studies on a potential 6th interprovincial crossing in the National Capital Region and developing a Long-Term Integrated Interprovincial Crossings Plan.
Since 2017, Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) has supported the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to put in place contracts and leases to manage an increase in asylum seekers at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing.
Whereas the contracting values are publicly disclosed, the sole source leases values have historically not been subject to the same disclosure requirements.
Nine lease agreements have been concluded with companies owned by Pierre Guay (e.g. for office space, land, and for use of the hotel adjacent to the border crossing). Various requests (media and access to information) were made concerning these lease agreements. Mr. Guay is characterized in a La Presse article as a supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada.
In September 2022, Radio-Canada published a number of stories on the Roxham Road crossing, criticizing the Government for not releasing the lease costs associated with the processing of asylum claims.
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), on behalf of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), awarded three professional services contracts in support of the ArriveCan application: one to create the application; one to improve its accessibility; and one to maintain and make improvements to it, along with other IM/IT applications. While the two initial contracts were non-competitive, the third contact, which is currently in place to provide maintenance and ongoing support for ArriveCan and other applications, was competitively awarded.
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