MPs grill department officials on Indigenous procurement issues

Senior Public Services and Procurement officials say questions about Indigenous procurement should go to Indigenous Services Canada because it’s responsible for the rules by which firms get government funding.

Public Services and Procurement Canada, overseen by Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, spent more than $280-million on Indigenous procurement in the last two years, but still has not met the government's five per cent target. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY IREM KOCA

October 17, 2024

House committee members grilled senior Public Services and Procurement officials about the department's failure to meet its Indigenous procurement targets weeks after Indigenous leaders

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