I KNEW I’d known something about that at one point! What an idiot.
But thanks!!! This will help enormously. In the Q & A before the
parliamentary cttee I’d mentioned the Employment Equity part of the Contractors
Compliance Program and said it was not longer in effect. Now they are asking
me for specifics. Luckily I have you to bring it all back.
Phew. But then you are soooooo much younger than I am!
❤️❤️
marjorie
mcohen@xxxxxx
Marjorie Griffin Cohen
On Feb 13, 2017, at 10:20 PM, Laurell Ritchie <laurellritchie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Marjorie, hopefully someone’s done an actual study.
· In 2013 the Harper government ‘streamlined’ the Federal Contractors
Program by reducing contractor obligations and raising the contract threshold
from $200,000 to $1 million, thereby reducing the number of employers
required to develop employment equity plans for the four designated groups
“women, aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible
minorities.”
· The Harper government previously delinked the program from the
Employment Equity Act in 2012. See excellent articles by Marjorie Cohen
!http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/policynote/2012/06/budget-bill-c-38-and-employment-equity
<http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/policynote/2012/06/budget-bill-c-38-and-employment-equity>
and
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/31/budget-bill-and-the-federal-contractors-program/
<http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/31/budget-bill-and-the-federal-contractors-program/>.
· Summary of Harper’s 2013 changes:
https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/government-procurement/policy-notice/2013-3.html
<https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/government-procurement/policy-notice/2013-3.html>
· Current requirements:
https://buyandsell.gc.ca/policy-and-guidelines/supply-manual/annex/5/1 ;
<https://buyandsell.gc.ca/policy-and-guidelines/supply-manual/annex/5/1>.
And
https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/employment-equity/federal-contractor-program.html
<https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/employment-equity/federal-contractor-program.html>
· If you can’t find out otherwise, perhaps an MP could put a question
in the House as to how many contractors were required to comply with the
Program in each year beginning in 2012.
· On a related note, a bill that would have required Community Benefit
assessments for the next round of infrastructure spending (Bill C-227) was
withdrawn on January 31. It was only a private member’s bill (Ahmed Hussen,
Liberal) but had passed at Second Reading. Apparently it was withdrawn
because a Minister cannot sponsor a private member’s bill and Hassan recently
became Minister of Immigration. https://openparliament.ca/bills/42-1/C-227/ ;
<https://openparliament.ca/bills/42-1/C-227/> . The bill defined community
benefits as social or economic benefits the community obtains from a public
works project (local job creation and training opportunities, improvement of
public spaces within the community, any other specific benefits identified by
the community) modeled on Ontario's new legislation. But without any
employment equity obligations.
Laurell Ritchie
From: turc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:turc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<turc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:turc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> on behalf of
Marjorie Griffin Cohen <mcohen@xxxxxx <mailto:mcohen@xxxxxx>>
Sent: February 13, 2017 4:11 PM
To: TURC CCPA
Cc: marjorie cohen
Subject: [TURC] contract compliance program
Hi All,
Has anyone recently done an analysis of the federal government contract
compliance program and employment equity? I seem to recall that during
Harper it shifted from applying to all contracts over $200,000 to those over
$1,000,000. I also dimly remember that there were problems with reporting
and any penalties.
If anyone can point me to something about what happened during Harper I’d be
grateful. The massive amounts of $$ that are going to be spent on
infrastructure programs will be a good forum for making sure this program
actually works to integrate the labour involved.
Marjorie
mcohen@xxxxxx <mailto:mcohen@xxxxxx>
Marjorie Griffin Cohen
