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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his social gathering’s MPs will ask a parliamentary committee to review  federal contracts given to the consulting agency McKinsey, following latest media studies describing a spike in awards to the corporate below the Liberal authorities.

Poilievre’s name comes after Radio-Canada reported that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s authorities spent 30 instances extra on contracts with the consulting agency than what was granted to McKinsey below his predecessor, Stephen Harper.

Now, Poilievre says the House of Commons authorities operations and estimates committee ought to launch a research into the tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} reportedly awarded to the agency.

“Recent reporting has shown neither the company nor the government is willing to explain what the money is for,” Poilievre stated, talking in a press convention on Tuesday.

According to Radio-Canada’s reporting, which Poilievre cited, Harper’s authorities awarded $2.2 million in contracts to McKinsey over the 9 years it was in energy. Since coming to workplace in 2015, nevertheless, Trudeau’s authorities reportedly gave $66 million in contracts to the agency.

More than $24 million of this cash, the report added, handled contracts associated to the immigration division.

“We want to know what all this money was for,” Poilievre stated.

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Pierre Poilievre calls out Trudeau over contracts awarded to international consulting agency McKinsey

Poilievre additionally expressed considerations in regards to the potential affect of the agency, and Trudeau’s choice to nominate former McKinsey director Dominic Barton as his ambassador to China for simply over two years, ending in 2021.

In order to launch such a research, nevertheless, Conservative MPs might want to submit a proper movement to the federal government operations committee. Then, the request should move a vote.

With 5 Liberals and 5 opposition members sitting on the committee, the Tories can solely win that vote if they’ve the help of all opposition MPs — and the Conservative chair.

Poilievre stated the movement may also search paperwork in regards to the McKinsey contracts.

“That includes contracts, conversations, records of work done, meetings held, text messages, email exchanges, everything that the government has with the company since taking office should be made public so that we can study all of these facts and hold the government accountable,” he stated.

This isn’t the primary time McKinsey has confronted scrutiny in recent times.

Le Parisien newspaper reported in November that French President Emmanuel Macron had been accused of illegally financing his 2017 marketing campaign, in reference to contracts with McKinsey.

The French prosecutor’s workplace confirmed it had widened an present probe into alleged tax fraud by McKinsey to incorporate the position of consultancy teams in France’s 2017 and 2022 election races, Reuters reported on the time.

The agency was additionally compelled to pay practically USD$600 million in settlements in 2021 over its alleged promotion of opioid gross sales because the opioid disaster gripped the United States.

In mild of those controversies, Poilievre stated he desires to know extra in regards to the “outsized influence” this firm might have had on “the operation of our government, in our democracy.”

“It’s time for Canadians to get answers,” Poilievre stated.

Global News has reached out to the Prime Minister’s Office for remark.

— with recordsdata from Reuters

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