Thank you.
We've definitely provided a few specific recommendations towards moving faster on procurement policy. I think a lot of that is about really cutting red tape and ensuring that we're able to get new indigenous businesses into the federal supply chain.
We see in corporate Canada, as well, that once they have a supplier, it's very easy for that procurement officer to go directly to that same supplier again. That's no different in the federal government as well, so we need to find ways to bring indigenous businesses into the federal supply chain.
A good opportunity for that is to increase the sole-source contract opportunity from $40,000 to $100,000, which would allow procurement officers to go directly to an indigenous business.
There are a few others that would take a little bit more change such as the mandatory minimum indigenous requirement of 5% of all contracts valued over $5 million required to be from indigenous suppliers. This was something that was key in Australia in their being able to move forward on their commitments.
Mandatory set-asides as well [Technical difficulty—Editor] between $100,000 and $200,000.
In corporate Canada, we've really seen organizations that have stepped up and been very public about their commitments. They also report their spending in both their annual reports and with their shareholders. We're definitely also recommending reporting, and the estimates committee is a prime example of where that could take place in a regular public reporting of the spending of every department and organization.