Text of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement – Annex 19

Unless otherwise specified, this Chapter covers procurement by entities listed in this Annex, subject to the following thresholds:

Thresholds:

When entities listed in this Annex conduct procurement for activities listed in Section B of Annex 19-3, the thresholds set out in that section apply.

List of Entities

1. Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency 2. Canada Border Services Agency 3. Canada Emission Reduction Incentives Agency 4. Canada Employment Insurance Commission 5. Canada Industrial Relations Board 6. Canada Revenue Agency 7. Canada School of Public Service 8. Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety 9. Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency 10. Canadian Food Inspection Agency 11. Canadian Forces Grievance Board 12. Canadian Grain Commission 13. Canadian Human Rights Commission 14. Canadian Human Rights Tribunal 15. Canadian Institutes of Health Research 16. Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat 17. Canadian International Trade Tribunal 18. Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency 19. Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission 20. Canadian Polar Commission 21. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission 22. Canadian Space Agency 23. Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board 24. Canadian Transportation Agency 25. Copyright Board 26. Correctional Service of Canada 27. Courts Administration Service 28. Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food 29. Department of Canadian Heritage 30. Department of Citizenship and Immigration 31. Department of Employment and Social Development 32. Department of Finance 33. Department of Fisheries and Oceans 34. Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development 35. Department of Health 36. Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development 37. Department of Industry 38. Department of Justice 39. Department of National Defence 40. Department of Natural Resources 41. Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness 42. Department of Public Works and Government Services 43. Department of the Environment 44. Department of Transport 45. Department of Veterans Affairs 46. Department of Western Economic Diversification 47. Director of Soldier Settlement 48. Director, The Veterans' Land Act 49. Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec 50. Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario 51. Financial Consumer Agency of Canada 52. Immigration and Refugee Board 53. Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission 54. Library and Archives of Canada 55. Military Police Complaints Commission 56. National Battlefields Commission 57. National Energy Board 58. National Farm Products Council 59. National Film Board 60. Parole Board of Canada 61. National Research Council of Canada 62. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council 63. Northern Pipeline Agency 64. Office of Infrastructure of Canada 65. Office of the Auditor General 66. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer 67. Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs 68. Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying 69. Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages 70. Office of the Communications Security Establishment Commissioner 71. Office of the Co-ordinator, Status of Women 72. Office of the Correctional Investigator of Canada 73. Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions 74. Office of the Governor General's Secretary 75. Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner 76. Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions 77. Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada 78. Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada 79. Parks Canada Agency 80. Patented Medicine Prices Review Board 81. Privy Council Office 82. Public Health Agency of Canada 83. Public Service Commission 84. Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board 85. Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada 86. Registry of the Competition Tribunal 87. Registry of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal 88. Registry of the Specific Claims Tribunal 89. Royal Canadian Mounted Police 90. Royal Canadian Mounted Police External Review Committee 91. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Public Complaints Commission 92. Security Intelligence Review Committee 93. Shared Services Canada 94. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 95. Statistics Canada 96. Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada 97. Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat 98. Veterans Review and Appeal Board Notes to Canada's Annex 19-1 1. For the Canadian Space Agency, the procurement of covered goods and services is limited to those related to satellite communications, earth observation and global navigation satellite systems. This commitment is in effect for a five-year period following the entry into force of this Agreement. The calculation of the five-year period includes the period of provisional application, if any. Before the end of the five-year period, Canada may notify the European Union that it is removing the temporary commitment. The notification takes effect at the end of the five-year period. If Canada does not provide such notification, the temporary commitment will become permanent. 2. Article 19.18 of this Chapter does not apply to the possible removal of the temporary commitment in this Note.

Annex 19-2 – Sub-central government entities

Unless otherwise specified, this Chapter covers procurement by entities listed in this Annex, subject to the following thresholds.

Thresholds:

When entities listed in this Annex conduct procurement for activities listed in Section B of Annex 19-3, the thresholds set out in that section apply.

List of entities:

• 1.1 This Annex includes all:
  1. departments, ministries, agencies, boards, councils, committees, commissions and similar agencies of government;
  2. regional, local, district or other forms of municipal government; and
  3. school boards and publicly-funded academic, health and social service entities.
• 1.2 This Annex does not include:
  1. Legislative Assembly
  2. Legislative Assembly Office
  3. Office of the Auditor General
  4. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer
  5. Office of the Ethics Commissioner
  6. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner
  7. Office of the Ombudsman

2. BRITISH COLUMBIA

• 2.1 This Annex includes all:
  1. ministries, agencies, boards, councils, committees, commissions and similar agencies of government;
  2. regional, local, district or other forms of municipal government; and
  3. school boards and publicly-funded academic, health and social service entities.
• 2.2 This Annex does not include the Legislative Assembly and its independent offices.

3. MANITOBA

• 3.1 This Annex includes all:
  1. departments, boards, commissions, committees and similar agencies of government;
  2. municipalities, municipal organisations; and
  3. school boards and publicly-funded academic, health and social service entities.

4. NEW BRUNSWICK

• 4.1 This Annex includes the following departments, secretariats and agencies:
  1. Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat
  2. Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries
  3. Ambulance New Brunswick Inc.
  4. Aquarium and Marine Center of New Brunswick
  5. Office of the Attorney General
  6. Child and Youth Advocate
  7. Education and Early Childhood Development
  8. Efficiency New Brunswick
  9. Elections New Brunswick
  10. Energy and Mines
  11. Environment and Local Government
  12. Executive Council Office
  13. FacilicorpNB Ltd.
  14. Farm Products Commission
  15. Finance
  16. Forest Protection Limited
  17. Health
  18. Horizon Health Network (Regional Health Authority)
  19. Justice
  20. Labour and Employment Board
  21. Natural Resources
  22. New Brunswick Arts Board
  23. New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization
  24. New Brunswick Energy & Utilities Board
  25. New Brunswick Forest Products Commission
  26. New Brunswick Health Council
  27. New Brunswick Human Rights Commission
  28. New Brunswick Insurance Board
  29. New Brunswick Internal Services Agency
  30. New Brunswick Lotteries Commission
  31. New Brunswick Museum
  32. New Brunswick Police Commission
  33. New Brunswick Public Libraries
  34. Office of Human Resources
  35. Office of the Auditor General
  36. Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages
  37. Office of the Comptroller
  38. Office of the Consumer Advocate for Insurance
  39. Office of the Leader of the Opposition
  40. Office of the Lieutenant-Governor
  41. Office of the Premier
  42. Office of the Public Trustee
  43. Ombudsman
  44. Population Growth Secretariat
  45. Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour
  46. Premier's Council on the Status of Disabled Persons
  47. Public Safety
  48. Vitalité (Regional Health Authority)
  49. Senior and Healthy Aging Secretariat
  50. Social Development
  51. Government Services
  52. Tourism, Heritage and Culture
  53. Transportation
  54. Village Historique Acadien
  55. Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission
• 4.2 District Education Councils
  1. All District Education Councils
• 4.3 Universities
  1. Mount Allison University
  2. St. Thomas' University
  3. Université de Moncton
  4. The University of New Brunswick
• 4.4 Community Colleges
  1. Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB)
  2. New Brunswick Community College (NBCC)
• 4.5 Regional Solid Waste Commissions
  1. Commission de gestion déchets de Kent
  2. Commission de gestion des déchets solides de la Péninsule acadienne
  3. Commission des Déchets Solides / Nepisiguit-Chaleur Solid Waste Commission
  4. Fredericton Region Solid Waste Commission
  5. Fundy Region Solid Waste Commission
  6. Kings County Region Solid Waste Commission
  7. La Commission de gestion enviro ressources du Nord-Ouest
  8. Northumberland Solid Waste Commission
  9. Restigouche Solid Waste Corporation
  10. Southwest Solid Waste Commission
  11. Valley Solid Waste Commission
  12. Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation
• 4.6 Wastewater Commissions
  1. Fredericton Area Pollution Control Commission
  2. Greater Moncton Sewerage Commission
• 4.7 Municipalities and Municipal Organisations (does not include municipal energy entities)
  1. City of Bathurst
  2. City of Campbellton
  3. City of Dieppe
  4. City of Edmundston
  5. City of Fredericton
  6. City of Miramichi
  7. City of Moncton
  8. City of Saint John

5. NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

• 5.1 This Annex includes all:
  1. departments, boards, commissions;
  2. municipalities, municipal organisations; and
  3. school boards and publicly-funded academic, health and social service entities.
• 5.2 This Annex does not include the Legislative Assembly.

6. NORTHWEST TERRITORIES

• 6.1 This Annex includes all:
  1. ministries, agencies;
  2. municipalities; and
  3. school boards and publicly-funded academic, health and social service entities.
• 6.2 This Annex does not include the Legislative Assembly.

7. NOVA SCOTIA

• 7.1 This Annex includes all public sector entities as defined in the Public Procurement Act, S.N.S. 2011, c. 12, except:
  1. any listed intergovernmental or privatised governmental unit if the Province does not own or control a majority of it;
  2. any entity listed or described in Section A of Annex 19-3, whether as an inclusion or exclusion;
  3. Emergency Health Services (a division of the Department of Health) in respect of ground ambulance-related procurement, for Emergency Health Care purposes;
  4. Sydney Tar Ponds Agency;
  5. Nova Scotia Lands Inc.; and
  6. Harbourside Commercial Park.

8. NUNAVUT

• 8.1 This Annex includes all:
  1. ministries, agencies;
  2. municipalities, municipal organisations; and
  3. school boards and publicly-funded academic, health and social service entities.
• 8.2 This Annex does not include the Legislative Assembly.

9. ONTARIO

• 9.1 This Annex includes all:
  1. provincial ministries and classified agencies but does not include energy agencies, agencies of a commercial or industrial nature, and Ontario Infrastructure and Lands Corporation;
  2. school boards and publicly-funded academic, health and social service entities; and
  3. municipalities but does not include municipal energy entities.
• 9.2 This Annex does not include the Offices of the Legislative Assembly.

10. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

• 10.1 This Annex includes all:
  1. departments, agencies;
  2. municipalities; and
  3. school boards and publicly-funded academic, health and social service entities.

11. QUÉBEC

• 11.1 This Annex includes all:
  1. departments, governmental agencies; and
  2. para-public organisations.

"Governmental agencies" means the bodies set out in subparagraphs (2) through (4) of the first paragraph of section 4 of the Act Respecting Contracting by Public Bodies, C.Q.L.R. c. C-65.1, including the Agence du revenu du Québec, and the persons set out in the second paragraph of that section, with the exception of the bodies and persons mentioned in section 5 of the Act.

"Para-public organisations" means the municipalities, the municipal organisations, and the bodies set out in subparagraphs (5) and (6) of the first paragraph of section 4 of the Act Respecting Contracting by Public Bodies, including the legal persons or other entities owned or controlled by one or several para-public organisations.

12. SASKATCHEWAN

• 12.1 This Annex includes all:
  1. ministries, agencies, Treasury Board Crown corporations, boards, commissions;
  2. municipalities; and
  3. school boards and publicly-funded academic, health and social service entities.

13. YUKON

• 13.1 This Annex includes:
  • Departments
    1. Department of Community Services
    2. Department of Economic Development
    3. Department of Education
    4. Department of Energy, Mine and Resources
    5. Department of Environment
    6. Department of Finance
    7. Department of Health and Social Services
    8. Department of Highways and Public Works
    9. Department of Justice
    10. Department of Tourism and Culture
    11. Executive Council Office
    12. Public Service Commission
    13. Women's Directorate
    14. French Language Services Directorate
  • Agencies
    1. Yukon Worker's Compensation Health & Safety Board

  Annex 19-3 – Other entities

  Section A

  Unless otherwise specified, this Chapter covers procurement by entities listed in Section A of this Annex, subject to the following thresholds: