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Queen's Park Observer

Consultants cash in

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Sabrina Nanji
Oct 03, 2025
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RECEIPTS REVEALED — The latest Public Accounts reveal just how much of your taxpayer dollars are flowing through the quasi-partisan Caucus Services Bureaus — a.k.a. the piggy bank for government and opposition consultants.

The Liberals and Greens are MIA — no recognized status, no cash receipts — but the PCs and NDP were writing some pretty hefty cheques last year. Highlights:

  • NICK KOUVALIS’s twin outfits, Campaign Research and Campaign Support, cleaned up with a combined $1,655,450 haul

  • DIMITRI PANTAZOPOULOS and RICHARD CIANO’s Yorkville Strategies raked in $201,173

  • Geppetto Technologies — which the PC Party previously used to deploy campaign canvassers — scored $252,657

  • WARREN KINSELLA’s Daisy Consulting snagged $67,000

  • Unilogic Solutions banked $395,500

  • MacPhie & Co.: $185,970

  • Snapstream: $101,600

  • Testerdigital: $74,580

  • Blue Labs Analytics: $67,000

Plus: another $1.14M spread across firms that fell under the $50K disclosure threshold (read: plenty of mystery players still poc…

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