I just want to read a quote from a book, When McKinsey Comes to Town. This is quoting a senior partner from McKinsey. It says:
If there was an award for squeezing the most out of [our] clients, McKinsey might be the favourite to win it. A senior partner told young recruits that when he started at the firm, a McKinsey manager helped him by offering tips on building client relationships. “Wedge yourself in and spread [yourself] like an amoeba,” he said. “Once in, you should spread yourself in the organization and do everything.” In other words, he said, act like “a Trojan horse.”
You would have us believe that the work McKinsey & Company was doing pro bono was very philanthropic, that it did not benefit in any way from contracts with the Government of Canada because of the pro bono work it did. It was not about being known to the Government of Canada.