Government Operations committee  Yes, that's right. I have a presentation.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for giving us this opportunity to talk to you about the City of Toronto's social procurement program. It's an exciting opportunity for us, whereby we're implementing institutional changes in Toronto. Moving to the first slide of the presentation in front of

Government Operations committee  The city is a member of each of those organizations. The organizations have set up a process in which they will go out and verify that a company is owned, managed, or controlled by 51% or more of the respective minorities that they represent. CAMSC and WBE Canada are based on pro

Government Operations committee  As I said, in requests for proposals, we'll ask them as part of their submission to us to submit their policy, or to submit that they're a certified supplier. That does give them points in the evaluation criteria, which might give them an edge compared to another competitor. We a

Government Operations committee  The amount that we're spending on contracts in place is between $2 billion to $3 billion, and we award another $1.8 billion each year.

Government Operations committee  The Pan Am Games developed their own supply chain diversity policy, and we had councillors on city council who made note of it and asked staff, through council, to find a way to keep that kind of concept alive for the city going forward.

Government Operations committee  That's right.

Government Operations committee  Roughly, in 2017 we had about $20 million, give or take, of spend with diverse suppliers. I'm sorry, but I can't do the percentage off the top of my head. We are again looking at future phases of how we're going to get reporting down through their own subcontractors to help inf

Government Operations committee  Thank you, and I appreciate the compliment. I would say that we still struggle, like the federal government, in finding ways to simplify it for small and medium–sized businesses—

Government Operations committee  I would think that our social procurement program is in part one of the ways to help address it. With contracts under $100,000, people would just contact the same vendors they know. We're trying to open that up so that small and medium-sized businesses that are diversely owned ha

Government Operations committee  I think this social procurement program is one example that's been successful. We've heard quite clearly from the—

Government Operations committee  I would say that we're still working on a good example. We're trying to do more outreach. We still struggle in the bigger contracts to break them down so that small and medium-sized businesses can participate.

Government Operations committee  To clarify, we don't have targets with respect to groups, but I understand the issue that is being presented. We work with the supplier councils to help try to make sure that their program is being rigorously met, and we monitor them. We've only been up and running for over a yea

Government Operations committee  Sorry, I don't have the percentages with me. I know that in 2017, for women-owned businesses, we had about $17 million worth of spend with them, and that was primarily driven by one contract, which was a construction contract.

Government Operations committee  We're setting up supplier network events with our supplier councils. We have our own internal ones, and we have ones with them as well. We try to get out about 12 times a year to push this message.