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The $10 million website: How Canada's sole-source contracting betrays the autistic community https://a4aontario.com/2020/07/17/the-10-million-website-how-canadas-sole-source-contracting-betrays-autistic-canadians/
A search of all publicly-available databases of government contracts shows that the majority of federal autism-related projects have not been put to tender in years, and the largest projects of all did not even have RFPs or any record of tender, bidding or assessments.
When autistic people—the population the government is claiming to serve—raised concerns about this, the government cut all autistic self-advocacy groups out completely from the policy discussion and refused to respond to our messages.
When the National Autism Strategy fails, its legacy will be of government ineptitude and undemocratic funding practices. It will be remembered as a policy that was directly opposed by every organization representing the group it claimed to serve.
