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Canada Border Services Agency

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is a Canadian federal law enforcement agency based in Ottawa, Ontario. It is an agency of the Government of Canada.

COVID-19

CBSA had a pre-existing contract with GC Strategies which was repurposed to develop ArriveCAN alongside Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).[1] The ArriveCAN application launched in April 2020.[2]

Organization

CBSA is a client of the Clinton Group.[3]

Personnel

Name Position Notes
Tina Namiesniowski Executive Vice President[4] COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force, Public Health Agency of Canada

Funding

CBSA has provided funding to Providence Health Care.[5]

  1. Clark, C. (2022, October 24). Nobody knows what happened with ArriveCan, but it sure was lucrative for some. The Globe and Mail. http://archive.today/2022.10.24-165744/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-nobody-knows-what-happened-with-arrivecan-but-it-sure-was-lucrative/ ↩︎

  2. Johnson, M. (2023, June 1). $54 Million ArriveCAN Boondoggle Leads to Calls for Transparency. Open Jaw. https://web.archive.org/web/20230603041953/https://openjaw.com/newsroom/other-news/2023/06/01/54-million-arrivecan-boondoggle-leads-to-calls-for-transparency/ ↩︎

  3. Our Clients. Clinton Group. Retrieved June 6, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.06.06-173740/http://clintongroupinc.com/clients.htm ↩︎

  4. Tina Namiesniowski. LinkedIn. Retrieved December 18, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.12.18-174402/https://www.linkedin.com/in/tina-namiesniowski-614b29a6/?originalSubdomain=ca&original_referer=https://www.linkedin.com/in/tina-namiesniowski-614b29a6/%3ForiginalSubdomain%3Dca ↩︎

  5. Donor List. Annual Report 2018/19. Retrieved February 7, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.02.08-021711/https://annualreport2019.providencehealthcare.org/donors/ ↩︎