First Nations must define economic reconciliation at fall meeting, says financial expert

First Nations must define economic reconciliation at fall meeting, says financial expert

Harold Calla wants First Nations leaders to walk into this fall’s meeting with the prime minister and premiers with a bigger demand than better consultation. For Calla, executive chair of the First Nations Financial Management Board, economic reconciliation means treating First Nations as governments — with the power to raise revenue, access capital, and shape the economic decisions that affect their lands before those decisions are already made…