Dene Nation calls scrapped procurement policy ‘significant setback’
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Dene Nation calls scrapped procurement policy ‘significant setback’
Ollie Williams
Tuesday July 28, 2026 at 8:05am MT
George Mackenzie in 2021. Meaghan Brackenbury/Cabin Radio
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The Dene Nation says the NWT government was wrong to abandon a proposed procurement policy that would have offered special protections for northern Indigenous businesses.
On Monday, Cabin Radio reported the GNWT had decided not to create and implement an Indigenous procurement policy, saying years of work failed to produce consensus on what it should include.
Instead, the main outcome of a process that began in 2…
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