“Despite Ottawa’s insistence that everything was above board, their own numbers revealed that, between 2011 and 2023, McKinsey was awarded ninety-seven contracts totalling more than $209 million—of them, 70 percent were non-competitive contracts. Even when contracts were, technically, competitive, the review found that the government sometimes tilted the process in McKinsey’s favour.
An independent procurement ombudsman reviewed those contracts in April 2024 and came to quite a different conclusion than that of the internal audits”