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Ottawa paid nearly $670,000 for KPMG’s advice on cutting consultant costs (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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The federal government hired KPMG consultants at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars for advice on how to save money on consultants, documents show.

New spending details tabled in Parliament show the department of Natural Resources, led by minister Jonathan Wilkinson, approved $669,650 for KPMG, a global professional services company, to provide managing consulting advice.

The department said this work involved developing “recommendations that could be considered as options to ensure that Canadians’ tax dollars are being used efficiently and being invested in the priorities that matter most to them.”

link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-federal-government-kpmg-consulting/

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

As crazy as it sounds I can sort-of see the point I suppose.

If you're trying to cut 15 billion, then paying 0,00045% of that to figure out how to do it doesn't really feel like such a big waste, even if in absolute numbers it's still a huge amount.

That being said, fuck HPCs!

[–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The sticking point for me is that a consultant should be the last person to ask for advice how to reduce consultant use

[–] syrooks@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It Is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it

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