New models of shared rule can secure better infrastructure in Indigenous communities – Policy Options

February 3, 2025

It’s time for novel and innovative ways to address the infrastructural security gap in Canada.

Many First Nations communities lack infrastructural security – a term for whether governments and communities have the necessary assets to promote and maintain the economic and social well-being of their members.

This problem on reserves is a “tale as old as time,” steeped in the ongoing legacies of colonialism when the Crown relocated Indigenous communities to reserves to facilitate assimilation and the economic development of their former lands.

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