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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Okay, thank you. I don't mind being under pressure. I'm going to skim through my presentation because I want to get to the recommendations as well. I think it's important. We're pretty new on the block. We actually originated from the First Nations Fiscal Management Act, so I t
June 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee You have our presentation; we've sent it. There's two recommendations in there. I don't know if you want to hear them before you run over.
June 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Good morning. I want to thank you for this opportunity. I was actually here last year and I didn't quite finish. I started my presentation and you guys had to go and vote on a bill. I hope that this time I'll get through it. Thank you once again for this opportunity, I really
March 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I believe that this act is really important. I see the importance as being in long-term planning, as communities are building themselves to pursue whatever activities they see as important to them and as a priority, and on their own time. Essentially, they're in control of it. Th
March 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee One of the barriers I see is the capacity issue both on our side and on the first nation side. There's really an education process to understanding how the act can actually help them achieve their goals to access financing for economic development, investing in two different proj
March 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Yes, that's exactly the point. You nailed it right on the head.
March 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee The scheduling was one of the biggest issues I encountered when I was talking to first nations. The current process can be fairly lengthy. It's a Governor in Council process, and it can take up to six months. In the Membertou example I mentioned, they had actually completed all t
March 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee One of the things I mentioned was the monetization of capital dollars. If $150 million, as an example, were monetized on an annual basis for 10 years, just over $1 billion could be leveraged at today's dollars. When you do the math, it's.... I don't know what the average cost of
March 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Yes, we could. The other suggestion—
March 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Yes. The other one is the Indian moneys. There is lots of money sitting there that could be leveraged. There's about $250,000 annually that's generated. You can actually leverage it by 12 or 13 times.
March 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee We worked in concert with the banking syndicate and the investment community to develop different leverage factors for each type of eligible revenue stream that's allowed under the regulation. We assess a first nation. We review their financial statements, look at the eligible re
March 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee There is no collateral. We secure ties to revenue stream.
March 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee We don't do risk lending.
March 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee There are government transfers, business revenue, contracts, leases, municipal transfers.
March 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Yes, it just has to be legal.
March 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Ernie Daniels