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What is the Government of Canada doing to support access to high-speed Internet infrastructure in the North?
What is the status of the Universal Broadband Fund (UBF) that was announced in Budget 2019?
How much broadband funding has been provided to provinces and territories that do not have federal-provincial agreements?
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.