Conservative MPs have written to Canada’s auditor-general to ask her to investigate the government’s issuance of contracts to consulting firm McKinsey & Company which the Tories say has close ties to the Liberal Party. The MPs were reacting to a Jan. 18 Globe and Mail report which said the previous Conservative government under Stephen Harper did very little business with McKinsey, but after the Liberals took power in 2015 the firm increasingly received multi-million dollar contracts. The NDP and the Bloc Québécois voiced their support of the Conservative initiative, according to the Globe report. In their Jan. 18 letter to Auditor-General Karen Hogan, Conservative MPs John Brassard and Pierre Paul-Hus cited figures in the Globe analysis that said since the Trudeau government took power, contracts with McKinsey “went from 0 in the last two years of the previous government to $33.6 million in the last six years.” The letter points to …