Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague outlining, through this motion, that the government “prohibit any government employee from simultaneously working as an external contractor.” That completely makes sense. It is logical. This should have been happening years ago. It should have been happening under the Harper government.
My concerns around outsourcing are serious, and I have raised them many times at the government operations committee. We have seen companies such as Deloitte receive $11 million when the Harper government took over its majority back in 2011, and that tripled to $38 million. Now it is over $200 million. Can members guess who sits as managing directors of Deloitte? It is former Conservative justice minister Peter MacKay and former Liberal cabinet minister Pierre Pettigrew.
We need to stop all of this outsourcing to former politicians, as well as to former employees leaving the federal government service. Does my colleague not agree?