Immigration Minister Sean Fraser told the House of Commons government operations committee on Feb. 15 that the involvement of consulting firm McKinsey & Company in his department has had no impact in his determination of immigration targets for the country.
“I don’t have a relationship with representatives of McKinsey or Dominic Barton, if anybody had been curious,” Fraser said.
“The company had not advised me directly or influenced the decision making about our immigration levels plan.”
Barton, when he was head of McKinsey, had chaired the Liberal government’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth which suggested in 2017 to significantly increase immigration levels….