Gord Johns at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On May 29th, 2023. See this statement in context.

May 29th, 2023 / 4:45 p.m.

NDP

Gord Johns NDP Courtenay—Alberni, BC

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Minister, I've raised this in the House of Commons. It's the increase in highly paid consultants, especially Deloitte. They're over $200 million now in the last fiscal year. PricewaterhouseCoopers is $100 million. There's $45 million to Accenture.

You talked about your plan to reduce spending on consulting and other professional services by roughly 15% in this fiscal year. Is that on the last fiscal year—because that's a 400% increase since your government took power in 2015—or is it on the 2015 amount?

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