Translation of "Politique sur les marchés " (French → English) :

Question No. 195 Mr. Brian Masse: With regard to the procurement practices and policies governing the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA): (a) which set of federal laws govern procurement by CATSA; (b) have CATSA’s major screening equipment procurement processes undertaken in 2009 and 2010 been subject to a legal procedure (such as Treasury Board contracting policy); (c) which set of laws or contracting procedures will govern CATSA’s October 2011 procurement for Next-Generation Computed Tomography X-Ray equipment; (d) which government bodies provide oversight for procurement processes conducted by CATSA; (e) what is the ...[+++] overall annual value of procurement carried out by CATSA; (f) what portion of this procurement is tendered; (g) does CATSA maintain conflict of interest policies for its employees and procurements and, if yes, how does CATSA enforce these policies; (h) how do CATSA procurement actions foster competition to ensure best value to the Canadian taxpayer; (i) does CATSA or Transport Canada establish the regulatory requirements and approval processes for security technology; and (j) how many of the checkpoint x-ray systems acquired by CATSA through a sole-source procurement process in 2009 were deployed in British Columbia for the Olympics?

We recommend that the committee include in its poverty reduction policy the role of social enterprise in a supportive framework that includes a government procurement policy that targets purchasing from social enterprises, as was recently adopted by the Province of Ontario.

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Instead of saying we're going to throw the market open and let business do what it likes, they have a very conscious, directed state strategy involving a range of tools, including financial market tools, activist foreign trade policy, macroeconomic measures, and labour market policies, all focused on building and creating competitive advantage in high-value industries, rather than, as we seem to be doing these days, looking at what we happen to have in the ground beneath our feet, digging it out, and selling it to the world market.

With respect to oversight relating to the secretariat's contracting policy, the committee has recommended that the secretariat “fulfill all of its responsibilities in the area of contracting, as set forth under section 5.1 of the contracting policy”, which is recommendation No. 14, and that it, “include measures to improve the monitoring of contracting activities”.

4. Improving the effectiveness of labour-market policy: T h e effectiveness of employment policy must be increased by avoiding practices which are detrimental to readiness to work, and by moving from a passive to an active labour market policy.