Thanks, Chair.
Looking at the departmental plan for PSPC, I notice that on page 13, it states, “target that at least 5% of the value of federal contracts be awarded to businesses managed and led by Indigenous Peoples.” In previous years, it was businesses “owned”. Why the change?
This question of how we determine what's best for the community has come up in the past in this committee: indigenous-owned but 50 non-indigenous workers, or non-indigenous-owned and 50 indigenous workers. How are we working out what's best for the community, and why the change?