The rise of the Department of McKinsey
, those federal contracts account for up to 10 per cent of the consultancy’s gross revenue for its Canadian operations between November, 2016, and February, 2022.
The opposition parties continue to poke away at those ties, and potential conflicts of interest that might exist. But in truth, McKinsey’s success in burrowing into a wide swath of government departments is a relatively small manifestation of a much bigger problem with the Liberal government, which is spending billions of dollars a year on outsourced expertise, even as it balloons federal payrolls year after year.
But McKinsey has advised the federal government on military and defence computer systems, and has also provided advice to U.S. defence and information technology companies. That clearly raises questions about conflict of interest, which the Commons committee is right to probe.
A related concern is accountability. In theory , a deputy minister and the department that they run will be called to account should grandiose proposals crash to the ground. That won’t happen with short-duration outsourcing contracts. By the time the glow has faded from overly sunny projections, the consultants have long since left the building.
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