As members of this Working Group, we had the unique opportunity to explore with First Nations participants and industry experts many far-reaching and complex topics related to the greater involvement and engagement of First Nations in natural resource development in Canada. [...] Technical Establish a central knowledge and information resource to assist and enable First knowledge and Nations information must • Provide easy access to practical and technical information and advisory services that can be accessible enable First Nations governments, businesses and individuals to participate more fully in all aspects of natural resource development. [...] The First Nations • Providing financial management tools and Tax Commission, the First Nations Financial services to First Nations governments seeking Management Board, and the First Nations Finance to strengthen their fiscal stewardship and Authority each have a distinct role in offering accountability regime and develop necessary services, tools and building capacities to assist long- capacity t [...] To address the environmental science and data needs of First Nations in natural resource development, we observed that: • First Nations are generally better supported when they have access to data management tools and processes to store, retrieve and use data assets more effectively in the community; • First Nations have the ability to determine and control their own datasets to be shared as they [...] First Nations also link prosperity to the goal of increased participation in resource development projects as owners; taking a rights-based approach within the parameters of the duty to consult and accommodate to shift the focus from “minimizing impact and infringement of Aboriginal rights” towards another goal of “prosperity and participation of First Nations people.” Often communities are torn i
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