Your department's mandate letter includes working with the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities and the Minister of Natural Resources to “introduce a new Buy Clean Strategy to support and prioritize the use of made-in-Canada low-carbon products in Canadian infrastructure projects.”
However, PSPC's most recent departmental plan makes no mention of a buy clean strategy. Despite broad support from industry, labour and the environmental community for a buy clean strategy, it seems little progress is actually being made on this front.
The supplementary estimates (B) do propose to transfer $235,000 from the National Research Council to the Treasury Board to support the implementation of a buy clean secretariat for federal procurement. However, I'm not aware of any timeline for an actual strategy to be introduced.
Can you explain if PSPC is actually working on the development of a buy clean strategy and when this might be introduced?