As I said in my opening remarks, when I joined the firm, McKinsey had already been serving the government at the federal and provincial level in other parts of the public sector, and it was done opportunistically. McKinsey thought that it would be a really good thing to serve the Government of Canada more fully and that it could benefit from certain expertise that McKinsey could bring to the table. I was the first partner to join the firm to be 100% focused on doing that.
If you combine that with the opposite end...changes have occurred over the last three or four years, namely a pandemic, a war and geopolitical instability. I think what you will see is that McKinsey's not an anomaly. The public sector had to lean in on various firms in order to either get specific expertise at a point in time or, in some cases, pure capacity.
What happened with McKinsey is not really unlike what happened with other firms.