Membership Services
Project Development Services
Project development is a core service of the FNMPC, often shared with Environmental Services, at request of member First Nations. Our project development services are delivered to FNMPC members on the principles of maximizing value and minimizing risk while enabling decisions to be made by First Nations on the basis of free, prior, and informed consent.
Commercial Support
- Commercial structuring
- Business negotiation support
- Risk and viability assessment
- Financing strategies
- Term sheet development and analysis
- Value chain assessment
- Benefit sharing models and best practices
Capacity Building
- Strategies to transfer knowledge at the community level
- 101 style educational materials on capital markets and major project sectors
- Impact Assessment and environmental regulatory capacity building
Facilitation & Aggregation
- Helping to bring together First Nation interest around large-scale or linear projects
- Facilitating the alignment of interests among governments, private sector, and First Nations on major projects
- Assistance working through project challenges with multiple parties
Environmental Capacity
- EA & IA capacity and technical support
- Environmental stewardship toolkits and impact assessment support capacity building workshops
- Proponent-level capacity funding agreement review & support
- Use capacity and service delivery tools at scale
- Provide external legal & commercial support as available and required
What We Do
- Corporate structures & aggregation of FN interests
- Benefit sharing models and best-practices
- Facilitation
- Bringing government, proponents, and our members to a common table
- Negotiation support
- Financing strategies & risk evaluation
- Advocacy based on member priorities
- Environmental capacity
- EA & IA capacity and technical support
- Capacity building workshops
- Proponent-level capacity funding agreement review & support
- Use capacity and service delivery tools at scale Provide external legal & commercial support as available and required
What We Don’t
- Any matters that are political in nature First Nation internal governance matters
- Projects below $100 million
- Projects that are not commercially viable (no revenue stream attached)
- Housing, community services, etc.
- Respond to requests from project proponents for help
- Requests must be member driven
- Make decisions on behalf of our members
- Take a financial interest in a project or charge for our service
How First Nation Can Access FNMPC’s Project Development Services
1. Requesting First Nation is an existing member of FNMPC or completes the forms to become a member.
2. Requesting First Nation submits to FNMPC a resolution or letter outlining the project opportunity.
3. FNMPC assesses the request
We assess the request from the First Nation against FNMPC’s member-directed project development guidelines which stipulate that a project request must be:
- $100 million or more in capital cost.
- Be proven or reasonably assumed to be commercially viable.
- Demonstrate that the requesting First Nation(s) have made an informed decision to either explore or pursue partnership / acquisition / development of a project opportunity
FNMPC Guidance Document
Th is paper is an update to the previous version of the Project Identification & Support Discussion Paper that was approved by the FNMPC Members on March 27, 2017. This version of the discussion paper includes revisions to the major project criteria and the project capacity support process.
Member Contacts
Member Communication and Support
Scott Cavan
VP Member and External Relations
Tel: 416.277.5753
Email: [email protected]
Member Administration Support
Janelle Nahanee
Executive Assistant
Tel: 604-418-3741
Email: [email protected]
Regional General Inquiry Support
Theresa Tait-day
Senior advisor
British Columbia region
[email protected]
Saga Williams
Senior advisor, external relations
Eastern Canada
[email protected]
Steve Saddleback
Senior advisor, external relations
Prairie Region
[email protected]