One McKinsey report, titled “School-system Priorities in the Age of Coronavirus,” encourages school officials to consider outsourcing with private education providers to meet the unique challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. McKinsey has served a similar role in other education systems elsewhere in the world, including jurisdictions where the private sector has a bigger role in delivering education services.
Soon after, McKinsey was also awarded a contract to manage the province’s 2020 school reopening for $3.2 million. Ontario’s auditor general said in November the cost to engage McKinsey was “higher than standard industry rates.” #onpoli McKinsey - one of the world’s most prominent management consultancy firms and linked to controversial wage and job cutting policies, ICE detention centres, opioid manufacturers and the Saudi monarchy - was contracted for $1.6 million to turn Ontario’s pandemic health table into a “command table” filled by business leaders after a cold call to Ford’s office last March.įrom March to April 2020, McKinsey designed Ontario’s COVID-19 “Central Coordination Table” to advise cabinet on pandemic-related measures and interface with “private sector supply chains.”Īccording to government documents, industry representatives alongside former “red tape reduction” deputy minister Giles Gherson and Canadian Tire Chief Operating Officer Allan Macdonald were further included in the “command table” as its membership mushroomed to up to 500. Documents found on an education stakeholder group’s website show McKinsey & Company, the firm hired by Doug Ford to advise Ontario’s 2020 school reopening, promoted COVID-19 as an opportunity for public schools to “collaborate” and “partner” with the private sector.
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