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Transport committee  I'd be happy to do that. We have been engaging and reaching out to national and regional indigenous organizations' leadership over the last number of months. They're interested in the idea of indigenous-led business solutions. We have not had active interest in pursuing that in

November 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

Government Operations committee  The goal of the procurement strategy for aboriginal business is to help indigenous businesses gain experience, bid, and partner with Canada, and to increase the number of contracts that go to indigenous businesses so that they get a larger share of the federal contract offerings.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

Government Operations committee  It can be. Individual departments are letting these contracts. They need to be out there looking for the opportunity. What we try to do through both PSPC and INAC, both in our PSAB work and in our work more generally, is to try to identify businesses that could benefit from feder

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

Government Operations committee  I could quickly recap for you, if you'd like. One of the findings was that the approach we used generally favours larger and more established firms over new and smaller businesses and entrepreneurs, so we need to have the PSAB tailored to the needs of all businesses. We can do th

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

Government Operations committee  Can I add one answer? Another challenge we have with the data we have in the system is that businesses may not always register themselves with the same name, so the move to business numbers is going to help us to track the activity of indigenous businesses better. They may chan

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

Government Operations committee  The modern treaties are certainly negotiated through what might be considered the CIRNA side. Once they are in place, all departments are actually obligated to follow those treaties and implement them. It really isn't necessarily CIRNA overseeing. They will do the broader analysi

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

Government Operations committee  Certainly in the shipbuilding work, we did work with the companies. There is a working group, and it includes indigenous groups as well, to figure out and get ahead of where those longer-term job opportunities are going to be. We've had ESDC engaged as well so that we can line up

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

Government Operations committee  That decision hasn't been made yet. The mandate letter made it clear that Minister Philpott would have indigenous services and that Minister Bennett would have more of the nation-to-nation, longer-term arrangement. At this point in time, it looks like it might be in the indigeno

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

Government Operations committee  I think in the end, it's about the strategy of providing services to businesses and having federal departments coordinate around the opportunity. It could go in either department in some ways, depending on how you look at it. In the end, it's a strategy. It's a program. It works

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

Government Operations committee  I see that as a partnership. Certainly INAC takes on a certain portion of the PSAB and has expertise in order to work with aboriginal businesses and federal departments, but it's done in partnership with PSPC. When we go out and offer sessions to federal departments, it's done

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

Government Operations committee  We're not expecting that it's going to change the direction we're taking. The whole division of the department is to get to better outcomes. PSAB will stay as a strategy, and it's supported.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

Government Operations committee  I'm not sure whether I would say it's a value of acceptable growth. What I would say is that there's been an awful lot of work to go out and speak to businesses and let them know about the strategy.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy

Government Operations committee  I don't think we've plateaued with growth. Our—

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Sheilagh Murphy