Can someone explain to me why taxpayers collectively paid the Bank of China, the Diplomatic Service Bureau in Shanghai, and the Service of Foreign Establishments in Guangdong over $15 million last year for consulting for temporary staffing solutions for Global Affairs Canada?

That is more for temporary help services than all other government departments put together, excluding the Department of Defence. What is the Bank of China providing us taxpayers with exactly?
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I get that it’s Global Affairs Canada, but, I mean, there’s only two countries listed. What is going on? The Bank of China is a state-owned entity.
Just for context - that’s more than the Department of Health spent on research services in the same year.

This is what “Temporary Help Services” is defined as by the Government of Canada, by the way.
I’m a little fuzzy on the part where Chinese state-owned enterprises enter the supply arrangement procurement plot here?

Who contracts out the Bank of China to staff their government foreign affairs offices? For real? Why can’t we just have a normal government that does normal things?
“I pay Chinese state-owned banks to staff my foreign affairs department” said no normal government basically ever.