Ms. Arianne Reza at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On July 23rd, 2020. See this statement in context.

July 23rd, 2020 / 1:35 p.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Procurement, Department of Public Works and Government Services

I'll be speedy.

Since 2018, we have introduced the policy on ethical procurement of apparel, which requires all bidders responding to our competitions to self-certify that between them and their first-tier suppliers they comply with human rights and labour standards. In addition, we've been working on changing our code of conduct for procurement to ensure that these matters of concern are also identified and our suppliers understand the code of conduct we expect them to adhere to.

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