McKinsey contracts probe will see committee press minister over awards
Since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government was elected in 2015, the consulting firm has been awarded 24 contracts worth $104.6 million, according to data provided by Public Services and Procurement Canada.
Radio-Canada has reported that the Conservatives awarded $2.2 million in contracts to McKinsey over the nine years that party was in power.Following the reports, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called for a probe into contracts awarded to the firm, a call the government operations and estimates committee answered when it voted to launch the study on Jan. 18.
“We want to know what all this money was for,” Poilievre said, speaking at a press conference earlier last month.Poilievre also expressed concerns about the potential influence of the firm, and Trudeau’s decision to appoint former McKinsey director Dominic Barton as his ambassador to China for just over two years, ending in 2021.
“It was a professional relationship, there was respect, there were always people in the room,” he told the committee after flattering comments from Trudeau, Freeland and Morneau about him were read into the record.
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