THE LIBRARY — PRIMARY-SOURCE DOCUMENTS, KEPT ON FILE
The documents the practice cites.
2 documents on file. Each entry is research the practice has worked from in council briefings, proposals, or proceedings. Primary sources are cited inline. Read in the browser or print as a PDF.
Free. No account. Public. Citable.
On file.
Each document opens as a dossier in the browser. Use the print dialog — ⌘P or Ctrl·P— to save it as a PDF you can attach to a brief. The cover stamp, body, and source citations all carry through.
The Legal Floor Above Bylaw
What no Canadian municipal bylaw can waive — CFTA, NWPTA, CETA, APA, and the provincial frameworks beneath them.
BOTTOM LINE
For any contract under roughly $75,000 to a BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, or Manitoba municipality, or under roughly $139,000 elsewhere in Canada, no trade agreement and no provincial statute compels open competition.
Reads the 2026–2027 CFTA biennial adjustment alongside the NWPTA $75K floor, the CETA Annex 19-2 municipal coverage, the Atlantic Procurement Agreement, and the four provincial frameworks that bind municipal procurement. Primary-source citations to the Internal Trade Secretariat and Treasury Board notices.
Municipal Procurement Thresholds — 24-Municipality Sample
Bylaw-by-bylaw evidence of where the direct-award, three-quote, and formal-RFP lines fall in Canadian municipalities.
BOTTOM LINE
Of fourteen confirmed municipalities, twelve treat purchases under $10,000 as direct-award without public posting. Province is a stronger predictor than population class.
A primary-source sample across Nova Scotia, Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, and Quebec. Fourteen of twenty-four are well-confirmed from posted bylaws; ten are flagged for phone verification. Patterns observed; tiered pricing recommendation included.
Why a library.
A council briefing is only as defensible as the source it cites. Every claim the practice makes in a brief or proposal is traceable to a primary source — a treaty article, a posted bylaw, an advisory from the issuing authority. The library is where those sources are filed, in the form the practice itself reads them.
How it grows.
An entry is added when a brief or proposal cites material the practice expects to refer back to. No promotional pamphlets. No white papers commissioned to drive funnel. The library and the tools share one corpus.
NEXT STEP
Call the principal.
If a document in the library is one you would want to discuss alongside a council brief, the phone is the fastest way.
Municipal technology, principal-led.