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What is the Government of Canada doing to ensure that rural areas have the mobile coverage they need?
What is the Government doing to help Canadians devastated by flooding, fires, and other disasters?
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), as a common service provider to departments and agencies for procurement and real property services, supports the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) at border crossings. This is done by putting in place various agreements to help accommodate asylum seekers arriving between ports of entry without alternative plans, while they await transfer to the provincial shelter system or secure private accommodations. In many cases, urgent contracts have been required to deal with increasing and often unpredictable volumes of asylum claimants, including contracts for short-term accommodation and support services, such as transportation, food and security.
Note: Questions related to the Safe Third Country Agreement should be directed to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Public Services and Procurement is the federal government’s administrator of real property and is responsible for approximately 6.9 million square metres (m²) of space across Canada. This includes the office portfolio, special purpose buildings, and assets for the Science and Parliamentary Infrastructure Branch. About 6.2 million square metres (m²) is considered office space.
Explaining Shared Services Canada’s (SSC) role in addressing cyber security, which is a shared responsibility with other agencies, such as the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) – Office of the Chief Information Officer (TBS-OCIO) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), which holds the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS).
The Commissioner of Official Languages tabled his 2022-2023 Annual Report on Official Languages in Parliament on May 30, 2023. In his report, he notably points out that the number of complaints related to services in French and English offered to the travelling public is still on the rise at Air Canada, among others.
The Commissioner of Official Languages tabled his 2022-2023 Annual Report on Official Languages in Parliament on May 30, 2023. It addresses three main themes and includes three recommendations.
What is the Government doing to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species?
The Government of Canada established the Canadian Postal Service Charter in 2009 to outline expectations regarding service standards in providing postal services to Canadians, with a review it every five years. In 2018, the Government affirmed that Canada Post was expected to continue to meet the existing expectations in the Charter.
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) is funded by the Government of Canada and cable, satellite and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) distributors to support the creation of Canadian audiovisual content across multiple platforms. The CMF’s total budget for 2023-24 is approximately $397 million, including a total Federal Government contribution of up to $216.6 million. Budget 2023 provides $40 million over two years, starting in 2023-24, to the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH) for the CMF to make funding more open to traditionally underrepresented voices, and to increase funding for French-language screen content.