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First Nations and Local Governments:
Creating Mutual Benefits through Service Delivery |
October 6th & 7th, 2009
UBC Robson Square
Vancouver, BC |
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Tony Penikett, Principal, Tony Penikett Negotiations Inc.; Visiting Professor, Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. Currently a mediator and negotiator, Mr. Penikett is a former deputy minister of negotiations and, later, labour in the Government of British Columbia. He was the MLA for Whitehorse West in the Yukon Legislative assembly from 1978 and 1995. He also served two terms as premier of the Yukon. Mr. Penikett is the author of Reconciliation: First Nations Treaty Making (Douglas & McIntyre, 2006) and two films, “The Mad Trapper,” (BBC TV/Time Life Films) and “La Patrouille Perdue,” (ORTF, Paris). |
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Mark Podlasly, Senior Socio-Economist, AECOM Canada Ltd., Burnaby, BC. Mr. Podlasly is a member of the Nlaka’pamux First Nation (South Central BC). He has over 20 years of worldwide experience in the planning, permitting and construction of large capital projects including power generation facilities and community infrastructure. Prior to joining AECOM, he was the vice president of Social Infrastructure at Gale International LLC (New York/Seoul), leading a team of international educators, facility programmers and leading architects to develop two $120 million international education campuses for New Songdo City, a $24 billion (USD) international business city 60 kilometers from Seoul, Korea. A graduate of Harvard University, Mr. Podlasly is a Senior Teaching Fellow in political economy at the Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has also taught globalization and leadership courses through Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership and the Harvard Business School. Before attending Harvard, Mark worked extensively in international finance and project development, primarily in relation to natural gas production and cogeneration power facilities in Canada, the USA and Asia. |
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Lee Ahenakew, Principal, 4Sight Consulting, Ohsweken, ON. Mr Ahenakew is a member of the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. His focus is water and wastewater infrastructure development and Aboriginal–corporate business relationships. Specialties include corporate marketing, sales programs and corporate citizenship programs with the Aboriginal community. A priority focus of 4Sight Consulting is facilitating Public Private Partnerships with First Nations and the private sector to form First Nation owned utility companies. Mr. Ahenakew has worked as the executive director of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (Ontario Chapter); Xerox Canada implementing their Aboriginal marketing and sales program, and Aboriginal Relations Program; and ZENON Environmental managing sales of water and wastewater treatment to US First Nations councils and tribes, and US and Canadian private developers. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Council for the National Centre for First Nations Governance. |
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Dr. John Calvert, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC. Dr. Calvert was a member of the 2004–2005 BC Hydro Integrated Electricity Planning Committee. He worked for a number of years in the government of British Columbia as a policy advisor in the trade policy area and in the Ministries of Labour, Employment and Investment and the Crown Corporations Secretariat. Recently his research has focused on energy privatization. His 2007 book, Liquid Gold, examines the impact of the Provincial Government’s Energy Plan. He is a board member of Citizens for Public Power, a non-profit advocacy group that opposes the privatization of BC’s electricity system. He is also a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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Fred Dabiri, P Eng., President, CEO and Senior Partner, David Nairne + Associates Ltd. (DNA), North Vancouver, BC. Mr. Dabiri is responsible for corporate leadership and co-ordinating the activities of the entire DNA team of engineers, planners, economic development specialists, architects and project managers. His areas of expertise include: Project development, funding negotiations and government liason for a wide range of projects, primarily for First Nation communities, as well as fostering partnership approaches with non-First Nation communities. Mr Dabiri brings over 35 years of project experience, having worked with over 125 First Nations in BC and the Yukon. He is Director of the “Naikun Wind Energy Group”, a 396 megawatt off shore wind energy program off the northern tip of the Haida Gwaii. |
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Rhonda Eager, Senior Planner, David Nairne + Associates Ltd., North Vancouver, BC. Ms. Eager has been a Registered Planner in British Columbia since 2001. She has 12 years experience as a consultant having worked with private, public and non-profit sector clients. Over the past eight years, she has been working primarily with First Nations in BC and the Northwest Territories in community and economic development. Over the past several years, she has been working with Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations and was involved in the negotiations of a Protocol Agreement and the development of a Joint Sustainability Framework between TFN and the District of Tofino. |
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Deanna Hamilton, President and CEO, First Nations Finance Authority, Westbank, BC. Ms. Hamilton is Okanagan and a member of the Westbank First Nation. She coordinated the development of the First Nations Finance Authority (FNFA) from conception in 1992 through to Royal Assent in March 2005. She has worked in business in a number of management and supervisory positions and successfully operated her own land development companies. Ms. Hamilton returned to the Westbank First Nation in 1990 as Surveyor of Taxes and was responsible for establishing the system of property tax administration. She was elected councillor to the Westbank First Nation from 1996–1998 and 2000–2002. |
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Ian Howat, Director of Legislative Services, City of Nanaimo, Nanaimo, BC. Mr. Howat is responsible for legislative services, First Nations relations and economic development. As protocol representative, he is responsible for ensuring the fulfilment of the terms of the City and Snuneymuxw First Nation’s Protocol Agreement and engaging in discussions on projects requiring mutual participation. He was instrumental in the development of the Newcastle Island Collaborative Management Agreement signed September 2007. Mr. Howat was the first CAO in the District of Lantzville, CAO in the District of Tofino and acting CAO and director of finance in the District of Ucluelet. |
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Dave Joe, Dave Joe Law Corporation, West Vancouver, BC. Mr. Joe is the Yukon’s first Aboriginal lawyer. Called to the Yukon bar in 1976, Mr. Joe was intimately involved with the land claim movement in 1973, when Yukon First Nations convinced then prime minister Pierre Trudeau and then Indian Affairs minister Jean Chrétien to negotiate a modern-day treaty. Mr. Joe was still involved 22 years later when the first four agreements became part of the Constitution of Canada. Today, the recognition of Aboriginal rights remains a focus of his law practice. Mr. Joe was named as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2008 “for his leadership in building stronger communities and positive relations between native and non-native peoples and in negotiating final land claims agreements for several Yukon First Nations.” He is a Southern Tutchone citizen of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations. |
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Grand Chief Doug Kelly (Tseem), Political Executive, First Nations Summit, West Vancouver, BC. Grand Chief Doug Kelly is a Tribal Chief of the Sto:lo Tribal Council. He is Chair of the BC First Nations Fisheries Council, a member of the First Nations Health Council, and acts as the Treasurer and Tribal Chief for Intergovernmental Relations for the Sto:lo Tribal Council. With over 28 years of experience in leadership roles for Aboriginal communities, Grand Chief Kelly has served: Eight years as elected chief of the Soowahlie Indian Band; six years as a self-employed community development consultant; 13 years in senior management positions including executive director, First Nations Chiefs’ Health Committee; executive director, Health and Social Development for Sto:lo Nation; operations manager for the Sto:lo Tribal Council; and former commissioner with the BC Treaty Commission. He served on the political executive of the First Nations Summit Task Group from June 2004–June 2006, and was elected to a second term in June 2008. |
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Jeff Loucks, Regional Director General, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (BC Regional Office), Vancouver, BC. Prior to joining INAC, Mr. Loucks was employed with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) for over 26 years. During this time he held a number of positions, most recently as regional manager of Aboriginal housing in the BC Region. Acknowledged on a number of occasions for his advocacy efforts in the areas of employment equity and diversity management, he has been actively involved in Aboriginal housing throughout his career. Prior to joining CMHC, he was employed with an Ontario Aboriginal association with responsibility for land and property acquisition and assembly. Mr. Loucks is also a member of the Hiawatha First Nation, a Mississauga community on Rice Lake, near Peterborough, ON. |
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Dave Mannix, Economic Development & Intergovernmental Affairs Officer, Snuneymuxw First Nation (SFN), Nanaimo BC. Mr. Mannix is a well-known businessman in the forest industry and an active board member for the BC Forest Practices Board, Island Coastal Economic Trust and Island Rail Corridor Foundation. He has worked for his Nation for over a decade and in early 2007 SFN announced a land development partnership for 770 acres in South Nanaimo. |
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Moses Martin,Tla-o-qui-aht Nation, Tofino, BC. After 40 years in native politics both as a council member and seven terms as chief councillor, Mr. Martin continues as a speaker for the Hereditary Chiefs, advisor and project manager for the Esowista Expansion. In more recent history he led the parliamentary lobby efforts and negotiations for removal of lands from Parks for the purpose of increasing the size of the Esowista Reserve, with assistance from David Nairne + Associates Ltd., John Watson and support from Tofino’s mayor. He also served as a part of the team that negotiated the Clayoquot Sound Interim Measures Agreement with the Province of British Columbia. He led the Meares Island Case, 1983–1985 and into the 90’s. Most recently he negotiated an MOU with District of Tofino, which has acted as a catalyst to treaty negotiations with Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations. |
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Doug McArthur, Professor, Public Policy Program, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC. Previously the Senior Fellow in Public Policy at UBC, Professor McArthur taught public policy theory and process, forest and resources policy and Aboriginal policy. He was also engaged in a research program encompassing these fields, and has presented and published a number of related papers. He was for many years a senior public servant in the BC, Saskatchewan and Yukon Governments. He was deputy minister to the premier and cabinet secretary in BC, deputy minister of Aboriginal affairs in BC, chief land claims negotiator in the Yukon, deputy minister of agriculture and deputy minister of Northern Saskatchewan, minister of education in Saskatchewan, and chair of the Canadian Council of Ministers of Education. He currently is an advisor to the federal government on the HRDC social policy review and on fiscal federalism. He also advises the Tsawwassen First Nation on treaty negotiations and development issues. He is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, University of Toronto and Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. |
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Ken Scopick, Chief Operating Officer, First Nations Tax Commission, Kamloops, BC. Mr. Scopick has extensive experience in the planning, financing and project management of capital infrastructure projects and land developments on First Nation lands. He played a coordinating role in the development of the First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act and in the implementation of the fiscal institutions. |
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David Shearer, Vice President, Civil Engineering Division, Chatwin Engineering, Nanaimo, BC. Mr. Shearer is a professional engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC since 1980, and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists for Alberta since 1990. He has over 30 years of experience in civil engineering design and project management in industrial, commercial and residential developments, with a special focus on Municipal Engineering Design and construction supervision of infrastructure for sewer and water systems in challenging locations. He was the manager and vice president of business development of engineering for the Port of Prince Rupert. With Chatwin Engineering, Mr. Shearer has applied his expertise to the development and construction of challenging subdivision, water, sewer and road projects on Vancouver Island and with First Nation partners. His background in port development has also contributed to the successful execution of several waterfront developments including marinas and shore protection projects. |
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Harold Steves, Richmond City Council, Richmond, BC. Mr. Steves has served Richmond City Council since 1977, and a previous term as alderman from 1968–1973. From 1973–1975, he served as an MLA in the Provincial Legislature and is a Founder of the Agricultural Land Reserve. He represents Richmond as second Director on the Board of Directors of Metro Vancouver and is Chair of the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Committee of Council. He is also a member of the Finance, General Purposes, Planning and the Public Works & Transportation Committees. He is a Council representative to: The Agricultural Advisory Committee; the Olympic Business Advisory Committee; the Richmond Farmers’ Institute; the Sea Island Community Association; the Steveston Harbour Authority Board; the Britannia Heritage Shipyard Society; the Richmond Athletic Commission; and the 2009 Richmond BC Seniors Games Board. |
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Patrick Stewart, Principal, Patrick Stewart Architect, Chilliwack and Vancouver, BC. Mr. Stewart is a Nisga’a Architect with many firsts including: The first Aboriginal president of an Architectural Association in Canada; the first Aboriginal architect to become the President of the Architectural Institute of BC; and the first Aboriginal person in BC to own and operate an Architectural firm. Mr. Stewart works tirelessly to give a voice to housing and homelessness issues locally and nationally. He is the elected Chair of the Aboriginal Homelessness Steering Committee in BC. He is also a President of National Aboriginal Housing Association and a Director of Nass Valley Gateway, a Nisga’a owned and publicly traded national resources exploration company. |
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Marcel Swain, CEO, Lu’ma Native Housing Society, Vancouver, BC. As CEO, Mr. Swain has lead Lu’ma Native Housing Society for over two decades. During this time, Lu’ma has won many honours and awards for excellence. Trained as a lawyer, Mr. Swain has over 25 years of experience in Aboriginal housing and commercial initiatives. His work reflects innovation and creativity in working with many different public and private partners. He has been instrumental in forging partnerships that have pioneered sustainable ways to build and manage Aboriginal housing projects. Despite all this, he still has a great sense of humour. |
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John Watson, Consultant, Vancouver, BC. Mr. Watson has over 30 years experience in the federal public service with Aboriginal issues, federal-provincial engagement and innovative policy approaches. He was the head of the Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat in the Privy Council Office where he served as the secretary to the Cabinet Committee on Aboriginal Affairs chaired by former prime minister Paul Martin. He was responsible for leading the development of new Aboriginal policy approaches, the co-ordination of the Prime Minister’s Roundtable with Aboriginal Leaders, the Policy Retreat of the Cabinet Committee with Aboriginal Leaders and the policy aspects of the successful First Ministers Meeting on Aboriginal Issues. Mr. Watson was also formerly the regional director general of Indian Affairs in BC and directed the management of regional federal organizations responsible for labour market and training programs in both BC and ON. He is a previous recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Head of the Public Service for his work related to the negotiation of the Nisga’a Treaty. |
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