The CAQ leader said the company advised the Quebec government on best practices from around the world and their advice \u0027saved lives\u0027
Legault said McKinsey & Company advised the government on best practices from around the world as Quebec faced a pandemic for the first time in a century. The advice from the company “saved lives,” the CAQ leader said.Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“It’s very concerning. How is it that a firm like this one — a foreign firm — was able to play such a large role in such a major crisis?” he told reporters outside his campaign office near Quebec City. “We have the right to know what happened.” “It’s expensive, McKinsey, but, obviously, that’s in line with the service they provide,” Legault told reporters in Amos, Que., around 600 kilometres northwest of Montreal. The decision to award the contracts to the company came from the public service — not the cabinet — Legault said, adding that the urgency of the situation justified awarding consulting contracts without a public procurement process.
Anglade and Quebec solidaire spokesman Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said the McKinsey contracts are more reasons to hold a public inquiry into the province’s overall management of the pandemic. Nadeau-Dubois also accused Legault of “privatizing” part of the province’s management of the pandemic and listening to a foreign multinational instead of Quebec health-care workers.
Meanwhile, the Parti quebecois on Friday suspended two of its candidates over anti-Muslim comments on social media.
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