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In municipal procurement, the idea of granting a preference to a local supplier is a time-honoured tradition that is entirely intuitive. For elected officials, whose mandate it is to promote the interest of the community they serve, the prospect of leveraging the municipality’s procurement mandate to foster local economic gains is sensible and shrewd. What is often not widely appreciated in Canada is that the practice of granting a “local preference,” as it is commonly