Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Let's come back to today's study, to the role McKinsey & Company played in the creation and beginnings of the Canada Infrastructure Bank.
I believe we need to go back a bit further and take note that after the 2015 election, the Trudeau Liberal government established the 14-member Economic Growth Advisory Council. Members included CEOs as well as academic and business leaders. It was this group that recommended that the Canada Infrastructure Bank be created. The same group was chaired by Dominic Barton, who was then the global managing partner at McKinsey & Company.
So it was this group, which was chaired by Dominic Barton and set up by the Prime Minister, that proposed that the infrastructure bank be created. At the time of its inception, that same bank contracted McKinsey to determine how it would operate. I, for one, find that peculiar. It's kind of like someone threw an idea out there, threw a hook in the water, then you took the bait and from then on they were going to make money off you.
Mr. Cory, don't you find that practice peculiar?