Must Think Before Spending

Federal managers who spend billions on consultants are now required to sign an oath stating “they thought about” it, the Treasury Board said yesterday. Parliamentarians complain spending on consultants averaged $25 billion a year even as the public service payroll grew to more than 413,000 employees: “We have been doing work to strengthen managers’ understanding.”

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