The Comptroller General of Canada advised federal chief financial officers (CFOs) to “be careful“ what they wrote down as any record created may ”find its way out” through Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) requests, a Commons committee heard on Feb. 8.
Comptroller Roch Huppé, who is responsible for government-wide financial management, was testifying at the House of Commons government operations committee on the issue of federal contracts awarded to consulting firm McKinsey & Company when he was asked to explain about his remarks to the CFOs during a meeting on Feb. 2.
