On Feb. 12, the public accounts committee is scheduled to receive confidential details of a special audit of the controversial ArriveCan app from Auditor General Karen Hogan. The committee first learned about this during a hearing on Jan. 25 and the report will be tabled at 11:15 a.m. that day following a lockup hosted by the office of the auditor general. Until then, no information on the report is being divulged. During the hearing, Deputy Auditor General Andrew Hayes did not disclose any information about potential criminality related to ArriveCan, only stating that the RCMP were already investigating federal contractors involved in the program.
The Commons public accounts committee ordered the special audit with a margin of 173–149 in response to disclosures that federal managers had hidden the true cost of the ArriveCan program from Parliament and concealed the value of sole-sourced contracts to suppliers. The meeting also addressed a Conservative motion condemning apparent reprisals against two whistleblowers on the ArriveCan program, but the motion was ultimately defeated. Despite concerns raised by Conservative MPs about the management of the program and reprisals against whistleblowers, MPs from other parties disagreed, saying that it was premature and that the expert opinion of the auditor general should be heard first.