REGINA – Saskatchewan’s Opposition leader is criticizing the government for an $85,000 contract he says was given to a consultant company to pitch its services.
NDP Leader Cam Broten has been calling for the government to scrap its Lean program, which aims to streamline the health-care system.
The government signed a $40-million contract over four years with U.S. company John Black and Associates.
Broten says a separate contract with the company in 2011-12 essentially outlined payment for the consultants’ initial pitch.
He says the contract said services would include presentations on the deployment of Lean and contributions to “successful transformations elsewhere.”
Health Minister Dustin Duncan says the province invited John Black and Associates to Saskatchewan to better understand the Lean program and had smaller contracts with the company before signing on for four years.
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