The deputy minister of Public Services and Procurement Canada says the federal authorities’s ethics guidelines don’t disqualify consulting agency McKinsey & Company from doing business with the federal authorities regardless of scrutiny of the agency’s international monitor report.
Paul Thompson answered questions in regards to the agency’s authorities contracts at a House of Commons committee Monday.
He stated a Canadian firm could be barred from federal contracts if one in every of its associates has been convicted of a criminal offense, which isn’t the case for McKinsey.
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The firm has confronted scrutiny for its work all over the world, together with its alleged involvement within the opioid disaster within the U.S. and its work with authoritarian governments.
The House of Commons authorities operations committee is digging into contracts awarded to McKinsey since 2011 following media experiences displaying a speedy enhance within the firm’s federal contracts underneath Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal authorities.
The authorities says McKinsey has obtained not less than $116.8 million in federal contracts since 2015.
At a news convention Monday, Conservative MP Garnett Genuis stated the federal authorities shouldn’t be contracting with McKinsey. “We cannot work with a company that’s behaving in the way McKinsey has.”
