Questions and responses 44th Parliament, 1st session November 22, 2021, to January 6, 2025

With regard to the government's Indigenous Business Directory: (a) what is the yearly budget to maintain and operate the directory, in total and broken down by type of cost (salaries, IT infrastructure, etc.); (b) how many full-time equivalent employees are assigned to work related to the directory, in total and broken down by position; and (c) what are the details of any contracts signed by the government since January 1, 2023, related to the directory, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) vendor, (iii) amount or value of the contract, (iv) description of the goods or services, (v) manner in which the contract was awarded (sole-sourced, competitive bid)?

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.)?

With regard to any audits of the Indigenous Business Directory (IBD), since February 6, 2006: (a) how many audits of the IBD have been conducted; (b) what are the details of each audit in (a), including, for each, the (i) date of the audit, (ii) number of businesses removed from the IBD, (iii) number of businesses remaining on the IBD at the conclusion of the audit; and (c) what are the details of all changes to the eligibility requirements for businesses to be listed in the directory, including, the (i) date of the change, (ii) eligibility requirements that were changed, (iii) proof of eligibility requirements needed?

With regard to the required compliance audit to be included in the government's Indigenous Business Directory: (a) when was the last time that (i) Coradix Technology Consulting, (ii) DALIAN Enterprises Inc., were the subject of a compliance audit, broken down by the client department or agency which provided contracts to either of the companies since January 1, 2016; and (b) for each audit in (a), what were the results?