In recent months, the conservative opposition parties have called for this investigation to shed light on these contracts. According to them, they have a great “multiplication“since 2015, when Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party came to power.
Garnett Genuis, Conservative MP, recently criticized “the huge sum of money“Paid to the company as of that date. It would exceed C$100 million.
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Dominic Barton’s ties to Trudeau are in question
The opposition also wants to clarify the links between Justin Trudeau and former McKinsey boss Dominic Barton, who they accuse of being close friends.
Dominic Barton was the head of McKinsey from 2009 to 2018 and Canada’s ambassador to China from 2019 to 2021.
In particular, he helped defuse the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. It was related to Canada’s 2018 arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou at the request of the United States. The ambassador also negotiated the release of the two Canadians detained in China.
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I am not a close personal friend of the Prime Minister
Dominic Barton, former McKinsey CEO and former Canadian Ambassador to China
Dominic Barton was recently summoned to testify before a parliamentary committee and asked about McKinsey’s role. The company is accused of contributing to the US opiate crisis.
Dominic Barton also had to speak about the deals he had with the Canadian government and his ties to Justin Trudeau. He pounded, “I am not a close personal friend of the Prime Minister“.
He claimed he had no”has been involved in the federal government’s award of paid contracts to McKinsey since moving to Asia in 1996“.
A study by Carleton University in Ottawa found that the overall value of contracts awarded to McKinsey still paled in comparison to those awarded to other companies such as Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC.
In France, searches were carried out at the homes of McKinsey leaders and former leaders in late January as part of an investigation into suspected illegal funding of Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 and 2022 election campaigns
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