Finance committee  In my community we started with a development with long-term leases. That quickly turned into a situation where we attracted a lot of first nations investing in property on reserve. They realized they would be able to utilize those revenues to get into small businesses--use those

Finance committee  One of the requests we've made to the Department of Indian Affairs is to allow us to develop the tools that are required for first nations to get into a true market-based housing approach. That's been resisted by the Department of Indian Affairs bureaucracy. That would allow firs

Finance committee  That's right. In dealing with CMHC, one of the problems they have is this whole notion of uncertainty in investing on first nations land. So that attitude has to change as well.

Finance committee  Thank you, Brian. I guess it's a question of how to implement market-oriented first nations policy changes. The Indian Taxation Advisory Board proposes the following agenda to the finance committee for addressing the root causes of first nations market failure and improving the