Government will review McKinsey contracts, Trudeau says | 24CA News
The authorities will evaluation $66 million price of contracts it awarded to administration consulting agency McKinsey & Company, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated Wednesday.
Speaking throughout a news convention in Mexico City on the North American Leaders’ Summit (NALS), Trudeau stated he is requested Public Service and Procurement Minister Helena Jaczek and President of the Treasury Board Mona Fortier to look at the contracts.
“I asked Minister Jaczek and Minister Fortier to do a follow-up and look closely at the numbers, and look at the circumstances that we heard about in the news,” Trudeau stated in French.
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“We’ll look at how these [McKinsey] contracts have been done and we’ll look at the recommendations,” Treasury Board President Mona Fortier stated on Power & Politics Wednesday. “I think we have to be fair and look at what will come out of that exercise.”
Trudeau stated the contracts had been a part of authorities efforts to modernize and enhance public service supply. He stated the federal government is open to creating adjustments if essential.
“We will do a follow-up to make sure that it was done in the right way, and see if we need to modify or change the rules,” Trudeau stated.
Radio-Canada reported final week that the worth of federal authorities contracts with McKinsey has elevated 30-fold because the Trudeau Liberals took workplace — growing from $2.2 million underneath Prime Minister Stephen Harper to $66 million underneath Trudeau. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) alone accounted for $24.5 million of the contracts.
McKinsey, which employs 30,000 consultants in 65 international locations, has typically attracted controversy. It has suggested authoritarian governments and has supplied consulting providers on boosting opioid gross sales. The Quebec and Ontario governments even have employed the agency.
On Tuesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre referred to as on a House of Commons committee to research the federal government’s use of McKinsey. In an announcement despatched to CBC News Tuesday, McKinsey stated its work is non-partisan and it does not make coverage suggestions. The firm stated it will seem earlier than a committee if requested.
The NDP and Bloc Québécois additionally denounced the contracts and referred to as for transparency on the federal government’s use of McKinsey.
The Trudeau authorities spent roughly $432 million on contracts with six massive personal consulting companies in 2021, in accordance with information compiled by Carleton University professor Amanda Clarke.
In an interview airing Wednesday on CBC’s Power & Politics, Fortier stated the federal government has contracted out some public service work, partially due to human useful resource points.
“Public servants are able to do a lot of the work, and sometimes we need to contract it out because there’s not enough of the expertise,” Fortier advised visitor host Catherine Cullen.
Fortier stated info expertise is an space of specific concern relating to labour shortages within the public service.
Fortier added the federal government is open to opposition events’ request for a probe.
“If they do ask for it … we will look into it,” she stated.
“I think that we have to be fair, and we have to look at what will come out of that exercise.”
