Government Operations committee  Good morning from Saskatoon. It's my pleasure to be here with you this morning over video to provide you with my words around how Canada needs to adjust and improve the current federal procurement tools for indigenous peoples. First, let me introduce myself. My name is Sean Wil

Government Operations committee  Yes, we completed it a while ago. We've kept it to ourselves and are sharing it with key information holders as we're going forward. We want to act as a bridge. We want to help. We don't want to inflame the situation.

Government Operations committee  Yes, I'm sure I can do that.

Government Operations committee  Yes. I built the procurement for Rio Tinto and for Cameco. The mining industry and the oil industry have been doing this for years. They go through a phase. They go through “We have to do this because it's legally mandated and we have targets to hit”. Then they realize that this

Government Operations committee  The uranium market has been dampened since the Fukushima earthquake. Back then it was 88% of our company's resources, but because of the proactiveness of our elders and our community leaders, we started diversifying. We still probably rely 45% on the uranium industry, and they've

Government Operations committee  Cameco has really stepped up on this one. All the employees over the 10-month period are getting 75% of their pay. We have 30 community members coming home who were really worried, but now we know they're getting 75% of their pay with the employment insurance plus the Cameco top-

Government Operations committee  Not from what I've heard from our community.

Government Operations committee  I was with the Tlicho first nation this week, and we had this discussion. We were in Ottawa together. The Tlicho first nation has a self-government land claim, and we've been working with them on a number of projects, including the white paper, and they told us they have seen not

Government Operations committee  It's Mr. Willy.

Government Operations committee  From the resource perspective, they want indigenous business playing in a bigger space, right? They don't want to bear all the risk of indigenous companies making 88% of their revenue off the resource industry, because when the market does go down, just like in the uranium market

Government Operations committee  In my opinion, putting it in INAC puts a focus on indigenous business. You are carving off all the small opportunities in the bucket when PSPC is handling all the procurement. I would rather see it as part of the mainstream and see a target driven down for accountability, with co

Government Operations committee  We think that with our recommendations, we'll get there. You have to set targets and you have to make people accountable to those targets. When you put targets in, there are going to be a number of non-indigenous firms that want to partner with aboriginal companies. I think the a

Government Operations committee  I can talk to my team and see what I can share and what I can't . We want to use this, so I'll get back to you on that.

Government Operations committee  That was 0.4. I'll share the ATIP I got with you.

Government Operations committee  It took about a week for it all.