Canada's Integrity Framework Gets A Makeover: What Public Contractors Need To Know

On July 3, 2015 Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) released its anticipated revisions to the Integrity Regime, which seeks to ensure it does business with ethical suppliers of goods and services in Canada and abroad. The Government relaxed some of the more controversial provisions from the previous Integrity Framework introduced in March 2014; including reducing the coverage period for prior convictions, removing automatic debarment for convictions of affiliates and allowing the ineligibility period to be reduced from 10 years to five years under certain conditions, nevertheless Canada still has one of the world's more stringent debarment regimes for public sector contracts.