Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, along with Public Works and Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound, is calling on senior bureaucrats to push for savings on contracts.

Federal ministers are asking the public service to push for savings from the roughly $66.9-billion Ottawa spends each year on goods and services contracts.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne and Joël Lightbound, the Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement, sent a letter Thursday to senior public servants responsible for federal spending and contracting, to ensure that contract spending is part of an overall federal effort to spend less on day-to-day operations.

The letter points out that the government of Canada is one of the biggest buyers in the country and there is an op

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