Premier Directs Government to Cancel American Contracts Wherever Viable
The B.C. government has updated its direction to ministries, health authorities and core Crown corporations to critically review all contracts with United States companies to decrease the Provinceâs dependence on goods and services from U.S. suppliers.
âAs people are choosing to buy B.C. and buy Canadian, British Columbians expect their government to join them in choosing to avoid U.S. purchases wherever possible,â said Premier David Eby. âThatâs why weâve directed our government to use its purchasing power to exclude American suppliers and support Canadian companies and trusted and reliable trading partners instead. Today, weâre expanding that directive to include looking for every opportunity to move existing contracts away from U.S. suppliers and cancelling non-essential government travel to the United States.â
The new directives order government, where viable, to:
- exclude goods and services from U.S. suppliers under existing contracts with U.S. suppliers;
- excl…
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