Michael Barrett at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On February 13th, 2023. See this statement in context.

February 13th, 2023 / 4:45 p.m.

Conservative

Michael Barrett Conservative Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, ON

We've seen emails from McKinsey—it's a giant company—pitching their business to the government. I think that if you asked someone on the street if that sounded like a lobbying effort and if it looked like a lobbying effort, they would probably say that it's a lobbying effort.

Knowing that they are pitching their business to the Government of Canada—that's established—do you find that this creates a problematic circumstance?

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