ANALYSIS: Federal Procurement Issues Go Much Deeper Than ArriveCan

Published on March 21, 2024

While the ArriveCan scandal and other procurement debacles have raised serious concerns around ethics and potential conflicts of interest, an expert says government purchasing practices are plagued with broader issues going back decades. According to Alan Williams, a former assistant deputy minister (ADM) at three federal departments including Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), when it was known as Public Works and Government Services Canada, this includes PSPC having overly strict procurement practices in some cases and overly lax approaches in others. “Everybody is sort of risk-averse on the one hand, and you paralyze everything, or you go to the other extreme and you willy-nilly just let things slide,” he told The Epoch Times....

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