Government Operations committee  One way of looking at it is that PSAB is one tool in the tool kit for promoting and supporting indigenous-owned businesses. Certainly there is some administration in getting into that, but we're also working in a number of areas outside of PSAB to generally support indigenous-own

Government Operations committee  With regard to direct impacts, we do have some data, for example, on local hiring targets, so we can collect that. We're looking at the dataset right now and we'll have to establish, in discussion with our partners, exactly what data we'll be able to collect in order to conduct t

Government Operations committee  We do post-audits of PSAB, and we do verifications. In the past, we have disqualified four businesses. It's not a common thing, but we do verifications. We check based on generally established criteria on entry into the PSAB database.

Government Operations committee  Perhaps I can illustrate a bit how we're approaching this. Definitely the criteria you mentioned are for entry into the program to get into the database, but of course there are other factors, like the economic benefits from the work. Currently we don't specifically track that d