Feds shelled out $73,000 to find new investment agency CEO, an ex-Liberal Party exec

That was the most spent on a single position out of $1.1-million paid last year to headhunters to help fill nearly 50 positions. Critics question whether it represents unnecessary spending when it doesn't protect from what one called patronage posts.

Ian McKay was announced as CEO of Invest in Canada in March. The Vancouver businessman served as national director of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2010 to 2013, pictured here the year he took on the Liberal job. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

April 11, 2018

The federal government is spending $158,200 on headhunters to help it staff up Canada’s new foreign investment promotion agency, part of $1.1-million spent on executive searches last year that opposition MPs say raises questions...

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