Building up Canada’s defence sector will depend on long-term homegrown support
The promised defence industrial strategy offers a significant opportunity to advance Canada’s innovation performance and the high-value jobs that should go with it. The biggest question is how we build the leadership and management skills that are essential for success.
Early retirement pitch to nearly 70,000 public servants outlines 120-day deadline to apply
Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada president Sean O’Reilly says he’s worried the incentive will lead to a ‘mass exodus’ of skilled government workers.
Centre Block reno tour highlights excavations, reconstruction, and a ‘Buy Canadian’ shift
By this time next year—or early 2027, depending on how things progress—scaffolding is expected to cover the entirety of Centre Block’s iconic south façade.
MPs order release of records from new Defence Investment Agency after it leaves the PBO waiting
The House Government Operations and Estimates Committee took the step to compel the release of information after hearing from the parliamentary budget officer that multiple government departments have yet to comply with his post-budget requests to analyze financial plans.
Public service unions demand answers addressing rumours about the end of remote work
The ‘volume and specificity’ of full-time return-to-office rumours ‘warrant immediate clarity from Treasury Board’ says union president Sean O’Reilly.
‘The only thing we want to see is transparency’: MPs call to view results of feds’ internal review of high-value contracts
Public Services and Procurement Canada says the 45-day review into finding savings through federal contracting ‘was completed on schedule’ and that results will be ‘communicated in due course.’
A fresh glimpse inside the Centre Block renovation site
—The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Seeing beyond the cave: bridging culture in defence and procurement
Both Public Services and Procurement Canada and the defence sector carry assumptions shaped by years of operating within their own institutional caves, and are only perceiving a portion of the truth.
Deloitte’s certification as partner to Indigenous firms raises questions about access to feds’ contract regime, says Indigenous business owner
‘Billions of dollars are at stake, and corporations understand that Indigenous participation is now a central factor in how those dollars will move,’ says Indigenous business owner Steven Vanloffeld.
‘Period of fluidity’: feds signal procurement transition as Defence Investment Agency ramps up
At least 50 procurement specialists from PSPC are moving over to the new Defence Investment Agency, according to Siobhan Harty, PSPC senior associate deputy minister of defence and marine procurement.
