{"id":858,"date":"2025-01-23T19:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=858"},"modified":"2025-01-23T19:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:01:57","slug":"shadow-government-the-consulting-firms-telling-ottawa-what-to-do-justin-ling-the-walrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/shadow-government-the-consulting-firms-telling-ottawa-what-to-do-justin-ling-the-walrus\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cShadow Government: The Consulting Firms Telling Ottawa What to Do\u201d &#8211; Justin Ling (The Walrus)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cDespite Ottawa\u2019s 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\u2014of 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\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An independent procurement ombudsman reviewed those contracts in April 2024 and came to quite a different conclusion than that of the internal audits\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/shadow-government\/\">https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/shadow-government\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDespite Ottawa\u2019s 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\u2014of 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\u2019s favour. An independent procurement&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,5,3,4],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-email_newsletter","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}