Consulting
The issue of how governments use consultants is now centre-stage, thanks to Pierre Poilievre and the National Post deciding to go full Maude Barlow on the issue of federal government contracts with McKinsey & Company. Chatter on twitter suggests that left and right are able to come together around two key issues: first, that having consultants do work means that government is somehow no longer accountable to the public and second, plaintively asking “why do we need consultants, when public servants