MPs questioned government witnesses about billions spent on outsourcing contracts by Ottawa and criticized the level of oversight during a House of Commons committee meeting on Oct. 3.
“Who is looking after taxpayers? Who is assuring accountability?” asked Conservative MP Kelly McCauley. He said $16 billion was spent in a year on outsourcing, which would be around a third of the $50 billion that is spent annually on salaries.
In an email to The Epoch Times, McCauley said that $16 billion is a number he “heard bandied about.” He said he asked the Treasury Board for the amount spent on outsourcing for the last year, but they didn’t provide it….