Social Canada Paid KPMG Consultants to Advise on Cutting Consultant Cost

[Orgasmo]

If you ever worked with the federal government, you'd know they have a ton of useless managers that will outsource research and decision making to external consultants. I just didn't expect they'd be incompetent enough to hire consultants on how to cut back on consulting.

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.”

Treasury Board President Anita Anand is currently leading a federal effort to save about $15-billion over five years from existing spending plans. She has promised to release the first wave of details this month. The Natural Resources contract work was part of that department’s contribution to the spending reduction effort.

Sauce: Ottawa paid nearly $670,000 for KPMG’s advice on cutting consultant costs - The Globe and Mail

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

It isn't incompetence, it's corruption. They are just funneling public funds to their friends.

The department said this work involved developing “recommendations that could be considered as options"

They paid them for nothing.

 

[Natural Order]

You’ve gotta spend money to save money…..

 

[MicroBrew]

Here in the US consultancy and giving talks are very popular with former government officials. It's nothing but bribery.

Anyone really believe Hillary giving talks for tens of thousands of $ to over 100K in fees is anything but bribery and influence peddling?

 

[panamaican]

The obvious humor aside, it's not a bad spend.

 

[Morning Star]

That's like paying McDonald's for dietary advice.

 

[avenue94]

The obvious humor aside, it's not a bad spend.

Whether you think it's dumb or smart, it's also quite common for private companies to lean on consultants like this. It's not just the government.

 

[rearnakedchoke]

The obvious humor aside, it's not a bad spend.

Pretty much. But Pierre polievre will use this as another tactic to gain voters. He realizes that the people he wants to win over aren’t the brightest and will believe anything of you tell it to them over and over again.

 

[Belaya Smert]

Pretty much. But Pierre polievre will use this as another tactic to gain voters. He realizes that the people he wants to win over aren’t the brightest and will believe anything of you tell it to them over and over again.

 

[Siver!]

Pretty much. But Pierre polievre will use this as another tactic to gain voters. He realizes that the people he wants to win over aren’t the brightest and will believe anything of you tell it to them over and over again.

Now that we all have access to pretty much all of the information via the internet, this has become the process of choice.

You can't outright pretend lies are truth unless you want to end up in court, so you have take something that is true (consultancy fees) and obfuscate all the other facts surrounding that truth.

"They spent $670,000 on consultancy fees to save an even bigger amount in consultancy fees" isn't a very good story, but "They spent $670,000 on consultancy fees when they were pretending they were cutting consultancy fees" is a dishonest but infinitely more interesting story.

 

[rikibobby]

The Liberals are gonna spend their way out of debt!

Clown world

 

[rearnakedchoke]

Now that we all have access to pretty much all of the information via the internet, this has become the process of choice.

You can't outright pretend lies are truth unless you want to end up in court, so you have take something that is true (consultancy fees) and obfuscate all the other facts surrounding that truth.

"They spent $670,000 on consultancy fees to save an even bigger amount in consultancy fees" isn't a very good story, but "They spent $670,000 on consultancy fees when they were pretending they were cutting consultancy fees" is a dishonest but infinitely more interesting story.

Yep. Polievre is gonna put it all in crypto and watch it grooooow!!!