Federal McKinsey contracts are a symptom of neoliberal decay

Auditor General Karen Hogan released a report on whether the Canadian government is getting value from its contracts with the U.S.-based global consulting giant, eliding deeper questions.

Dominic Barton served as McKinsey’s global managing director and a member of the Canadian government’s economic advisory panel in 2016 and 2017. (Flickr/World Economic Forum)

Overshadowed by the latest hysteria over foreign interference in Canadian elections is a new report from Auditor General Karen Hogan, who found the federal government to be violatin…