Government Operations committee  I wouldn't want to scare you with my orange and black. In fact, we are involved. In a sense, we are taking our cue from ESDC, which is looking at whether they are doing this through apprenticeship or are they doing it through whatever range of programs and training.... They are

Government Operations committee  Do you want to take it from your perspective?

Government Operations committee  Based on that recent change in April, I think it's reflective of what we've heard: there's a lag time in terms of paying. Since we know the bulk of our contracts are with SMEs.... I spoke earlier to the comment made in terms of the value. I should say that 80% of contracts under

Government Operations committee  I think that the various pieces of the IBM contract that are not defined by contractual confidentiality with IBM have already been shared in terms of the cost, the amendments, and the bidding process. I believe that there has been a fairly robust set of documentation already prov

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I am sorry. I came prepared to talk about the landscape of federal procurement from the PSPC lens, and I don't have details on specific strategies for individual contracts.

Government Operations committee  ESDC is examining the fair wages policy. We're working closely with them. Once a fair wage policy is established and set, contractual clauses in PSPC contracts and across government will be reflected in that direction and policy.

Government Operations committee  Unfortunately, in this role the PSPC is supporting the lead department, ESDC, which is looking at the deliberations; it's currently being considered, and I don't have details on the timelines.

Government Operations committee  ESDC is doing consultations nationally. I think they're looking at different stakeholder groups and discussing the various pieces. Once we have an understanding of what the contents of the policy will look like, we will be looking at reconciling it with our current contractual ob

Government Operations committee  We are working closely with them, but for a sense of the timing, I don't have access to know. Perhaps we can come back with a response on that in terms of timing.

Government Operations committee  I'm not able today to provide detailed updates on those projects you've mentioned and those acquisitions. I would just say that in terms of domestic content policy, procurement has two areas. One is the defence area and one is procurement that is non-defence, which is governed b

Government Operations committee  My understanding of the way the trade agreements work is that there are exceptions that all countries who are signatories of the trade agreement agree to, and they're very narrowly defined.

Government Operations committee  Certainly from a PSPC perspective, we've been monitoring the bill in the sense of looking at the community inclusion benefits on the SMEs and seeing how we would actually map it and what additional costs it would bring in. We're also looking at best practices internationally, whe

Government Operations committee  We haven't gone that far to see what it would add to the procurement—

Government Operations committee  We don't have an immediate timeline in place. We're still looking at the considerations of what it would add. When I say “costs”, I'm looking at the resources for the SMEs to apply and how we would revise our RFPs and solicitations to include community benefits.

Government Operations committee  From a PSPC perspective, we haven't broken down in detail the cost of—