Canadian Indigenous Investment Summit 2027

“When you start to conceive a project, that's the point that you start to have a dialogue, not when you've actually gone into starting to scope what it looks like and asking questions, because you will not have that consent.”

Adam Matthews 
Chair
Global Investor Commission on Mining 

“We are an energy superpower, and there is not a country in the world that probably wouldn't change places with Canada for the resources that we have alone.”

Goldie Hyder
President and CEO
Business Council of Canada

“If you are an investor and you're going to community and you have deadlines to get over or get back to your board with an investment profile, you have to understand that community might not have the capacity at the time to answer those questions. So building in more time into your project and into your conversations.”

Tabatha Bull
President and CEO 
Canadian Council for Indigenous Business

“Our Nations are not leaving our traditional territories. We've always been there. We're there for the long haul. That provides extra reinsurance that we want investments in our area.”

Michael Peters 
CEO
Glooscap Ventures

“$745 million in loan guarantees. Nine transactions. Forty-three First Nations and Métis groups. Zero defaults.”

Walt Patterson 
Associate Fellow
Energy, Environment and Resources Programme 
Chatham House 

“The Ring of Fire, without dispute, is quantitatively and qualitatively the best critical mineral deposit the world over.”

The Hon. Greg Rickford
Ontario Minister
Indigenous Affairs and Ring of Fire Partnerships

“We're seeing a lot more investors and certainly seeing more pension funds starting to look at our bonds and purchase our debt. We would like to see more. We have had quite a few discussions with a number of pension funds in Canada. But we're starting to see that pivot and looking more into projects and debt that exists in Canada.”

Jodi Anderson
VP, Partnerships, Strategy and Public Affairs
First Nations Finance Authority

“The attitudes of First Nations expecting to become now co-owners, co-investors in assets that provide revenue streams back to our nations so we can invest in our own people — that's one side that's different.”

Mark Podlasly
CEO
First Nations Major Projects Coalition

“We really taught Cameco how to see Indigenous inclusion as a value-added proposition rather than a legal framework.”

Sean Willy 
President and CEO
Des Nedhe Group

“The First Nations whose land and traditional territory the road will run through are the ones leading the project. They take the main seat at the table.”

Mark Lewis
President and CEO
Det'on Cho

“Northern defence investment and the inclusion of Indigenous business in the supply chain are now coupled. Sovereignty, security and economic participation move as one set of decisions.”

Janice Fischer
Senior Vice President, State Street
Director, Council for Countering Hybrid Warfare