Anishinabek member provides details on Indigenous procurement at Toronto conference – Anishinabek News
October 30, 2024
TORONTO – Progress is being made but so much more can still be done.
Those were among the messages that Angela Mark delivered at the Indigenomics Bay Street conference, which concluded on Oct. 18 in Toronto.
Mark, a member of Garden River First Nation, is the director of research for the Canadian Council for Indigenous Business (CCIB), and was a speaker on the Indigenous Procurement panel at the conference, which was held at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel.
In 2019, the federal government had implemented a mandate that a minimum of five per cent of its procurement contracts must be awarded to Indigenous businesses.
