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 asked the Treasury Board for the amount spent on outsourcing for the last year, but they didn’t provide it. He said different groups have different definitions of outsourcing….