Q-3281 , 44th Parliament, 1st session November 22, 2021, to January 6, 2025

With regard to the government’s Indigenous Business Directory, since January 1, 2016, and broken down by year: (a) how many businesses were removed from the directory; (b) how many of the businesses in (a) were removed due to (i) bankruptcy or otherwise ceasing operations, (ii) non-compliance with the requirement that 51% of the business be owned and controlled by Indigenous peoples, (iii) another reason, broken down by reason; (c) for each business that was removed from the directory, what are the details, including, the (i) name, (ii) location, (iii) date, (iv) reason for its removal; (d) have any of the businesses in (c) since been re-added to the directory, and, if so, what are the details of each instance, including the name of the businesses and the date they were re-added; (e) when a company is removed from the directory, are its ongoing contracts with the government, which were awarded due to its status in the directory, cancelled, and, if so, what are the details of any such contracts, including, for each, the (i) name of the company, (ii) contract value prior to its cancellation, (iii) date of the contract, (iv) date of the cancellation, (v) date on which the company was removed from the directory, (vi) final contract value following its cancellation, (vii) amount recovered by the government following the cancellation; and (f) for each instance where a business was removed due to non-compliance with the 51% requirement, how did the government become aware of the non-compliance (whistleblower, compliance audit, general research, etc.)?