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The Lasalle Causeway’s Bascule Bridge has been closed since March 30 due to a construction incident, resulting in disruption to local traffic and marine navigation.
One of the Translation Bureau’s missions is to provide interpretation services to Parliament. Its ability to do so has been compromised in recent years by the worldwide shortage of interpreters and health and safety incidents related to sound quality among interpreters. The Translation Bureau has implemented several measures to strengthen its interpretation capacity and protect interpreters.
On Tuesday, June 4, 2024, the Office of the Auditor General published its performance audit on Professional Services contracts awarded to McKinsey & Company.
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) in partnership with Indigenous Services Canada and Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat are actively working to increase the participation of Indigenous businesses in federal procurement.
Public Services and Procurement Canada’s Crown-owned building portfolio (excluding housing) is achieving results in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and towards becoming net-zero carbon, in response to the Greening Government Strategy. The department is also achieving results toward zero plastic waste.
Questions have been raised in the past on the level of postal service in rural communities and on the moratorium on rural post office closures. On February 6, 2024, the Government Operations and Estimates Committee passed a motion to study the decline of rural postal services
On May 3, 2024, Canada Post Corporation released its Annual Report and recorded a loss before tax of $748 million for 2023. Canada Post’s mandate is to be financially self-sufficient and it is striving for ways to do that while facing continued challenges of lower revenue and volume trends. Canada Post continues to provide Canadians with affordable postal rates.
From November 2023 until January 2024, Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) tested the use of generative Artificial Intelligence on a free, publicly available, open source tool called mPersona, based on the recommendation of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC). On January 22, 2024, a media request was received from LaPresse indicating that the FINTRAC CTO was also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Symaiotics Corporation, which owned the mPersona tool.
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) will continue to provide sufficient office space to accommodate federal public service employees in its offices.
The Official Residences of Canada: 2021 Asset Portfolio Condition Report was released by the National Capital Commission (NCC) in 2021 and identified a requirement for an injection of $175 million over 10 years to address the deferred maintenance deficit for all six official residences.