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.

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

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

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