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Senator Deacon will be asking the following question in today’s Question Period:
“Despite Treasury Board's Policy on Green Procurement, in October of this year, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), the department responsible for leading Canada’s national sustainability strategies, failed to incorporate detailed sustainability criteria in a $8 Million dollar purchase of laptops. The department opted for the lowest cost solution despite the availability of green alternatives. I've found this to be far from the only case where the criteria are simply the lowest cost.
The absence of sustainability criteria and consideration in government procurements is prevalent across all departments. For example, an ongoing bid for computer hardware and accessories initiated by Shared Services, or pharmaceutical refrigerators at National Defense, also does not have sustainability criteria listed on the bidder requirements.
Procurement can be a powerful tool in reducing our scope 3 carbon emissions all the way down the supply chain. Why did ECCC, the lead department responsible our national sustainability goals, fail to set an example by not including these criteria in these bids?”