There was a burning question for Diane Daly, a civil servant who worked on the ArriveCan app project. But when she appeared before a Commons committee Wednesday, MPs appeared to forget it.

The key question for Ms. Daly centred around a finding made by Auditor-General Karen Hogan in February. The two-person firm at the centre of the ArriveCan controversy, GCStrategies, had helped set the terms for bids on a $25-million contract. Those terms, according to the Auditor-General, gave GCStrategies an advantage in bidding. And they won the contract.

GCStrategies partner Kristian Firth was admonished by MPs for failing to answer questions, notably refusing to cough up the name of the civil servant he had dealt with on those bids. Mr. Firth was even called to the bar of the House of Commons in April – the first private citizen to get such a grilling since 1913. The name he eventually gave was Ms. Daly’s.

So when Ms. Daly appeared before the Commons public accounts committee, you’d expect the bid shenanigans to be a hot topic. It wasn’t.

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