If you look at a little bit of history there, the joint venture partnership model is in place and it implies that any joint venture is a partnership. In the forest sector, that's how most indigenous groups entered into the sector. Right there, at a fundamental level, it's already a collaborative effort. That has only grown into the national imagination of indigenous groups, but also international indigenous groups looking at the Canadian model.
Every region has examples of joint venture partnerships and partnerships between indigenous and non-indigenous business groups in the forest sector. What we're seeing now is the indigenous maturity, sophistication and, frankly, equity and business strength coming, so that indigenous groups are now becoming the senior partners in the partnership matrix, which is something that you would logically see over time.
This is where the increasing numbers for tenure under control are happening. In Alberta, it's not quite as advanced as some of the other regions. I'd say that the most advanced regions are Ontario, Saskatchewan and B.C., for some of the advanced indigenous forest sector manufacturing and also management business groups that are taking that leap to the next level.
Quebec and Alberta, strangely enough, seem to have the same provincial policy prescription of about 30 million cubic metres of provincial tenure each. They accommodate indigenous groups there with about one million cubic metres of volume. In the forestry world, that's very low levels of accommodation. Compare that to Ontario, where 20% of tenure is held by indigenous groups, or Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where it's over 30% of the tenure. You're getting job creation. You're getting manufacturing investment, and you're getting better forest management.
This longitudinal experiment in the provinces is where we're starting to see the different outcomes of different policy prescriptions. I'll submit our tenure report to the committee, to the clerk, so you guys can take a look at that. I don't want to get too much further into that, other than to say that in my submissions you'll see that there are some very high-profile indigenous business groups and entities that are really paving the way.
Interestingly, the world is noticing now, gentlemen and gentleladies. We have indigenous business groups and national governments from around the world on the back of our trade agreements: the renewed CPTPP and CETA. The SLA is always a little more difficult into the U.S. Where there are indigenous groups and national governments trying to figure this out in the world, they are looking at the Canadian government and asking, “How can we replicate some of this?”
Provincially, I would say that we have to get the provinces to look across their borders and ask, “How is this working? How are you getting these returns of employment, of manufacturing and of better forest management?” Part of that is the forest management groups. How do we do it better? How do we account, in our region, for the type of forests we have, the type of climate change pressure we're seeing, the kinds of insects, and the kinds of dynamics that you can only get with local, regional engagement at a deep level?