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  1. MiserableLizards on

    I have no desire to work when this is how they spend my taxes.   Time for Pierre to end this wasteful spending.   There are people out there who want more taxes!  

  2. Plucky_DuckYa on

    So… a quarter-ish of the companies on the approved list back in 2022 didn’t qualify? That is an astonishing amount of abuse. But that’s what you get when you set up race-based preferential procurement processes I guess.

  3. Frosty-Tell-6290 on

    Good start. Also remove the 2-3 person false fronts that allow the government to falsely represent contracts as indigenous by taking a 5-8% service fee and offer zero fulfillment. If there are indigenous alternatives to big tech then truly consider them. It’s a lie that has been perpetuated for decades and enrich very few people at taxpayer expense.

  4. KermitsBusiness on

    This is like a mafia level money laundering scheme under the guise of actually helping people.

  5. Intelligent-Bad-2950 on

    We shouldn’t have an indigenous procurement list

    I want my tax dollars going to the best company, period. I don’t remember government procurement contracts being in any of the treaties, but who knows, I’m not a lawyer.

    Oh sorry, that’s the wrong kind of equality

  6. gorpthehorrible on

    What about charges? No one is going to jail? The government should at least try to find out witch Swiss bank account in went into. Well that’s easily fixed. We’ll just make new company s.

  7. They have to have a cover to wash and launder the bribe money they got from big corps for all the subsidies they gave to hire the other non nationals。 This isn’t new news, been happening for over 30 years. Make program name , advertise, draw them all in, throw money at them, check later to see if it went to where it was supposed to go, say we caught you, cancel their names off list. No accountability money is gone. Repeat process under new initiative name.

  8. Chairman_Mittens on

    We should complain when our tax dollars are being spent unwisely.

    We should be absolutely appalled when our tax dollars are being given to scammers due to an abysmal lack of oversight like this..

  9. Reasonable-Sweet9320 on

    And are they going to have to pay back any financial gain they obtained through misrepresentation? Are any clear cut cases going to be pursued legally?

    I’m guessing no to both.

  10. unapologeticopinions on

    So sad to see. I’m all for indigenous assistance, and I always heard people bitch about the amount of people who “got a status card to avoid paying taxes!” Which is…. Not really a problem……. I mean, it happens, but rarely, and those people don’t understand how status affects paying taxes.

    But programs like this that are easily exploited just reduce public perception on indigenous aid. Stacked on top of genocidal ignorance, it’s getting harder and harder for the indigenous community to get on par with the rest of Canada. I’d rather have more stringent policies than a free for all that can be abused by anyone. Those companies should face big, big fraud penalties.

  11. Ordinary_3246 on

    >“Every two years the department audits the Indigeneity of businesses, just because businesses transform quite a bit between audits,” Hajdu told a House of Commons committee Tuesday morning.

    And by two years I mean every time we get caught with our thumbs up our @ss.

  12. This is very clearly an attempt to try to group Randy Boissonnault in with 1,100 other companies so we look at this as a widespread issue and not a cabinet minister blatantly committing fraud.

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