Government Operations committee  You're right. The data that we present—which I think you have available to you but I can share as well—shows that McKinsey has the highest rate of growth by far between 2017 and 2021. The overall total amount spent on McKinsey is much smaller than a number of other firms. Why ha

Government Operations committee  It's great to be here. Thank you very much for inviting back. I'm really excited to see that you are continuing to look at this issue. I'm an associate professor at Carleton University's school of public policy and administration. By way of context, I've been researching public

Government Operations committee  There were cute stories about people who created the app for $250,000 over a weekend, but, as we've discussed, that's not a fully functioning service. It's not being maintained; it doesn't have security protocols; it's not necessarily accessible; it's not looped into back-end sys

Government Operations committee  Their model grew out of massive failure in parliamentary scrutiny, so you're on a good roll here. Basically, they have an amazing parliamentary report from, I think, 2011, called “Government and IT—'a recipe for rip-offs'”. They pretty much investigated the scandalous awarding of

Government Operations committee  Yes. Thanks. That's a good question. The U.K. is far ahead of the Government of Canada in introducing a lot of modern design practices, bringing in technology talent and also instituting hard carrots and sticks for departments to be smart about how they procure and manage techn

Government Operations committee  I agree completely. People are pretty much over their enthusiasm for weekend hackathons. It's not the thing when it comes to building robust, accessible public services. That's not to say that we don't want to tap into a specific tech community, create open APIs and think about

Government Operations committee  I don't know how widespread that is but, anecdotally, the idea that you would lean on a staffing agency to quickly pull together a team is not bizarre. One of the things I've learned from the research and speaking with public servants, both in Canada and internationally, specifi

Government Operations committee  Thanks for the question. We acknowledge in the brief that it is a highly controversial suggestion. What it emerges from is interviews with public servants to try to better understand the barriers to attracting tech talent, which is really in demand, into government. I think it w

Government Operations committee  I should be clear that there's—

Government Operations committee  I should be clear that the public servants I speak to don't explicitly say that we should give up on the bilingualism requirements. They just note that it is a legitimate challenge—

Government Operations committee  For the vast majority of public servants I interview, I'd say most of them are anglophones.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to the committee for having me here today. I'm Amanda Clarke and I'm an associate professor at Carleton University's school of public policy and administration. For the past decade or so, I've been studying digital government reforms in Canada a

Information & Ethics committee  I think you're exactly right to note that people sort of want it all. On this point, I think the committee should be really careful with how it interprets a lot of the data we currently have on citizens' preferences with regard to government data collection and use, because most

Information & Ethics committee  I think that's an excellent point that I'll echo. One of the conditions that need to be in place for all of this to work is citizen trust in the system, and that's also going to be about generating a certain tolerance for failure amongst the public. I'm not talking about the publ

Information & Ethics committee  David, you wrote the article, so I'd say it's you who's going to field this one.