Watchdog report prompts renewed calls for Indigenous people to run Indigenous procurement – National | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] A scathing watchdog report into the federal government’s multi-billion-dollar Indigenous procurement system has led to renewed calls for the program to be run by First Nations, Inuit and Métis people rather than public servants. Dawn Madhabee Leach with the First Nations Procurement Authority told Global News that the federal government should make Indigenous people […]
Federal government boosts scrutiny of businesses claiming to be Indigenous-owned – National | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] Indigenous Services Canada is promising stricter enforcement against businesses falsely claiming to be Indigenous-owned in order to gain preferential access to billions worth of federal government contracts, according to a document reviewed by Global News. In a letter sent late last month to the House of Commons’ Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee, Mandy Gull-Masty, […]