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 had no influence on how he determined 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.”
When Barton was head of McKinsey, he chaired the Liberal government’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth which suggested in 2017 to significantly increase immigration levels.
The current immigration targets are similar to what the council had advised. The government plans to reach 500,000 new immigrants in 2025….
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