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Audit finds widespread irregularities in federal indigenous contracting program

A long-awaited federal audit has uncovered serious irregularities in a program meant to give contracting preference to indigenous-owned businesses, revealing that most companies claiming indigenous status were never properly verified.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the probe into Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty’s department found that two-thirds of suppliers who said they were indigenous could not prove it.

(Incognito)

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