Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Meegwetch.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Meegwetch. Thank you. First, on procurement, we have been working quite closely with the government, as I said, on pushing for the 5%, and for every ministry and organization to meet the 5%. Within CCAB we have a program called “supply change”, which has a procurement marketpla

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Firstly, on the geographic component, businesses definitely were impacted, based on the lockdowns wherever they tended to live, and definitely in some communities in community-owned businesses where communities had actually stopped off their border from coming and going. The Six

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  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 corpora

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think the work the AFN network and NACCA is doing has been exceptional, but I think some of the concerns.... What we saw as well from indigenous businesses in the survey in not accessing some of the funding that was available through COVID in particular was the requirement for

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Meegwetch. Aanii. Tabatha Bull n'indignikaaz, Nipissing n'indoonjibaa, Migizi dodem. Hello. My name is Tabatha Bull, and I'm a member of Nipissing First Nation. As president and CEO of Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business, CCAB, I want to thank you, Mr. Chair, and all di