Step back from the individual headlines this month and one pattern connects almost all of them. Ontario's LT2 renewable awards required at least 50 percent Indigenous ownership. BC's wind call built First Nations equity into every project. Both major pipeline proposals reserve Indigenous equity stakes, backed by federal and provincial loan-guarantee programs. Even the debate over Ontario's new species law turns, in part, on the adequacy of First Nations consultation.
Across power, pipelines, critical minerals, and infrastructure, Indigenous partnership has moved from a social expectation to a structural feature of how major projects get financed and approved. For PRI, this is familiar ground rather than a trend to chase. We have built our work around genuine, long-term relationships with First Nations partners across BC and Saskatchewan, as co-owners and decision-makers, not stakeholders to be consulted late. As the national build-out accelerates, the firms that treated partnership as core will be the ones ready for the work. That is the position we have chosen, deliberately, for years.
As the national build-out accelerates, the firms that treated partnership as core will be the ones ready for the work. That is the position we have chosen, deliberately, for years.
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