Two of the three companies that competed for a federal contract to deliver job placement services for Canada's veterans were disqualified for "not having sufficient experience" — even though one of them was doing the work already for Veterans Affairs, CBC News has learned. The $10.4 million contract ended up going to an Oshawa, Ont.-based company, Agilec, which in its previous iteration had done a lot of work for the Ontario government under then-premier Dalton McGuinty. He said there has been something "puzzling" about the contract since the beginning and asks whether there was political interference in the contract process. The veterans department gave Agilec two thumbs up, saying it has dealt with a higher than expected number of veterans seeking job placement. Conservative MP Erin O'Toole says he finds aspects of the federal government's contract competition for veterans' job placement services "puzzling."

Source: CBC News March 13, 2019 07:52 UTC