Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Organizations seem to think that any means are justified to award contracts to the company of their choice. You note several examples of this in your report on professional services contracts.
In fact, when it comes to some Crown corporations, we use the expression “contract chains”. In the case of Canada Post, for example, these contracts are used quite blatantly. For the same mission, which is to find ways of diversifying its revenues, seven contracts were awarded over several years to the McKinsey firm, for a total of $16.5 million.
Finally, could it be said that this is the same $16.5-million contract spread over several contracts, which was obviously awarded non-competitively?