Exploring Theme: "Indigenous Procurement"

Coalition wants to make sure opportunities ‘that are meant for our people go to our people’ CBC Indigenous: A coalition of Indigenous economic organizations wants the federal government to adopt new definitions of what constitutes Indigenous businesses and organizations into its procurement process. “We know that there are shell companies that maybe have an Indigenous...

NationTalk: OTTAWA, ONTARIO – NACCA is thrilled to announce the release of the Indigenous Business Definitions, a national set of consistent definitions that will help direct the procurement of goods and services to legitimate Indigenous businesses across the country. In 2021, the federal government announced a government-wide procurement target of 5 percent for Indigenous businesses....