INDIGENOUS ENGAGEMENT
Our mission is to optimize Indigenous engagement on this project.
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Commitment
The EllisDon-EBC Joint Venture (MDB JV) shares the Federal government’s Department of National Defence (DND) and Defence Construction Canada’s (DCC) commitment to the increase of investment in Indigenous-owned businesses and opportunities for Indigenous workers.The Project is a landmark investment in the region and presents an enormous opportunity to equally invest in the skills, experience, and economic benefit of local Indigenous communities.
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Working together
The project team is engaging with First Nations in the Saguenay Lac-St Jean and surrounding areas. These relationships and collaborations will ensure that the project optimizes Indigenous inclusion.
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Indigenous Benefits Plan
MDB JV is committed to providing full and fair opportunity to local Indigenous businesses to participate in supplying goods and services to the Project and delivering its procurement function in an open, fair, and transparent manner. EllisDon and EBC are both proud members of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB). MDB JV will share employment opportunities, skilled and unskilled craft, as well as professional roles with Indigenous individuals, communities and businesses.
ADOPT & IMPLEMENT
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action
In order to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission makes the following calls to action.
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
Whereas the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples provides a framework for reconciliation, healing and peace, as well as harmonious and cooperative relations based on the principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith.
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such.
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