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WEALTH & ECONOMY | Otga:nǫnihsraˀ, tsęh hniˀ Naˀdewatwihsda̲ hsnyehaˀ
ECONOMIC SELF-RELIANCE

Measuring Progress

• Generating sufficient revenue to build the community that • Using our resources to sustain ourselves
we want to see
• Ensure external governments adhere to their financial
commitments

Key Challenges And Concerns

• Our current financial need keeps us tied to priorities of external governments, but is not enough to meet our basic
needs for health, infrastructure, social programs and so on
• Businesses and wealthy individuals in the community benefit from tax-free status and use our public infrastructure but have
no responsibility to give back to the collective benefit
• Businesses and municipalities in the Haldimand tract generate revenue that does not come back to us
• Community has frustrations with the way collective wealth is spent; application-based approaches offer transparency but
are based on internal competition instead of collaborative long-term planning, direct decisions made by governance can lack
transparency, individual distributions does not target collective benefit

Suggested Lead Partners

• Six Nations of the Grand • Lands & Resources • New and emerging
River Development organizations
Corporation • Governance

Timeline

OBJECTIVES STATUS IN 2019
Metric needed to consistently assess community economic development options
Create Social Wealth in terms of their social benefits and impacts as opposed to just profits and losses,
Assessment tool for Community
Economic Development projects outcomes will help inform community during decision-making stage in contentious
developments.
Continue to expand community Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation is doing this work but often
economic development facing governance issues. Renew focus on localized projects that meet community goals
initiatives in the short term until there is greater resolution in governance.

SHORT Conduct a community Community has expressed mixed feelings about their willingness to contribute and/
or have businesses contribute to improve the community, hesitation about taxation,
(2019-2024) contribution study transparency, governance. These issues need to be explored more in depth through
engagement.
Explore different approaches, pursue systems which are less about competition and
Conduct a study of alternatives more about collaboration and long-term planning, while remaining accountable and
for collective wealth spending
transparent.
Develop a clear picture of what our economic needs are and the different ways we can
Conduct a community study on reach that goal as a community. Conduct community engagement to gauge which
economic self-reliance
collective investment strategies best align with community values.
Certain developments bring small amounts of accommodation, but no comprehensive
LONG Create sustainable resource effort. Global Solutions documents what the revenue could be. Intimately tied
(2030-2039) plan to benefit from Haldimand to issues of governance, greater unity and understanding needed before a clear
Tract/Nanfan land and resources
assertion can be made over resources in the territory that fully protects our rights.

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