Translation of "Sustainable procurement " (English → French) :

· Actively contribute to dialogues and assist partner countries in their efforts to strengthen their regulatory frameworks, judicial systems, economic instruments, social conditions, sustainable procurement, and other related policies and to implement and enforce legislation, including through international partnerships, exchange of knowledge and capacity building.

Secondly, for the Government of Canada's sustainable procurement policies, there are a number of provisions that require a certain performance under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program, or LEED.

Another step that the Government of Canada could do to is to follow in the footsteps of the EU and lead by example by revisiting the federal government's public procurement standards to choose Fairtrade certified products and other sustainable procurement considerations.

Future work: The Parties agreed on work programmes that address issues such as sustainable procurement, support for small and medium enterprises and monitoring of exclusions and restrictions.

We also have a point on procurement, which is that we advocate the inclusion of provisions allowing for green procurement, for example, to allow for market transformation and in aid of more sustainable practices, products, and services, as well as green jobs in the domestic economies of the parties.

Here are a couple of examples: levelling the playing field between public and private transit by providing stable funding for public transit; enhancing energy efficiency in Canadian cities by, for instance, offering a GST rebate on renovations to existing homes if they improve energy efficiency; providing incentives to encourage the sustainable growth of our cities by, for instance, establishing sustainability criteria as the federal government moves to bring in more infrastructure programs; and furthermore, having the federal government get its own house in order by, for example, greening its extensive ...[+++]procurement regimes, in the sense that it is the largest single procurer of goods and services in Canada.