The document summarizes an upcoming conference on Aboriginal land resource management in Western and Northern Canada. The conference will focus on developing strategies for building capacity in Aboriginal communities to advance natural resource development in a sustainable way. It will include case studies and panels on integrating traditional knowledge into environmental reports, the role of Aboriginal development corporations, financing major projects in First Nations communities, and opportunities for partnerships between Aboriginal groups and industry. The agenda outlines sessions over two days addressing topics like the implications of the Tsilhqot'in decision, comprehensive community planning, environmental assessments, negotiating and litigating land claims, LNG and pipeline projects, and financing strategies.

1. www.InsightInfo.com/ABLand
February 2–3, 2016
Four Seasons Hotel | Vancouver, BC
Conference Highlights:
• How to integrate traditional knowledge into environmental sustainability reports and projects
• The role of Aboriginal development corporations for economic expansion and
energy development
• Major project financing and how it can more be done in First Nations communities
• Aboriginal participation in the regulatory process of LNG and pipeline developments
• Joint opportunities for development through partnerships, finding shared ground
and understanding
and more...

2. Distinguished Faculty
Harold Calla
Executive Chair
First Nations Financial Management Board
Chief Robert Chamberlin
Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis First Nation
Chair of the
Musgamagw-Tsawataineuk Tribal Council
Candace Dennis
Director - Aboriginal Banking, British Columbia
Yukon Division
BMO
Chief Michelle Edwards
Cayoose Creek Indian Band
Chris Hartman
Chief Executive Officer
TFN Economic Development Corporation
Amyn F. Lalji
Partner
Miller Thomson LLP
Bruce McIvor
Principal
First Peoples Law
Annita McPhee
President
Annita McPhee Strategies
Garry Merkel
Chief Executive Officer
Tahltan Nation Development Corporation
Rob Miller
Co-Founder
Miller Titerle + Company LLP
Alanna Mitchell
Community Planner
K’omoks First Nation
Chief Karen Ogen
Wet’suwet’en First Nation
Grand Chief Robert Pasco
Nlaka’pamux Nation Tribal Council
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
Nicholette Prince
Chief Operating Officer
Nak’azdli Band
Mai Rempel
Counsel
Dentons LLP
Pamela Shaw PhD MCIP RPP FRCGS
Planning Consultant
Scott A. Smith
Associate
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Tribal Chief Terry Teegee
Carrier Sekani Tribal Council
Lisa Walls
Regional Director, Pacific and Yukon Region
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency

3. Conference Highlights:
• How to integrate traditional knowledge into
environmental sustainability reports and projects
• The role of Aboriginal development corporations
for economic expansion and energy development
• Major project financing and how it can more be done
in First Nations communities
• Aboriginal participation in the regulatory process of
LNG and pipeline developments
• Joint opportunities for development
through partnerships, finding shared ground
and understanding
and more…
This has been a remarkable year for growth and change
in Western and Northern Canada’s natural resource sector.
The continuous expansion of development projects
combined with the rapidly changing regulatory system
in the post-Tsilhqot’in world has created an uncertain
future for this industry and the Aboriginal community.
Through this process of change, it is necessary for key
stakeholders to come together to advance ideas and
develop creative solutions to the various challenges this
industry faces.
Building on the success of past programs, this year’s
Western Canadian Aboriginal Land Resource
Management Forum will focus on developing
strategies for building capacity in Aboriginal communities
to advance the natural resource industry in an economically
and environmentally sustainable way. Through case studies
and panel discussions, participants of this forum will learn
new legislative and legal changes that affect each stakeholder;
how to promote corporate social and environmental responsibility;
how to advance Aboriginal owned enterprises; and how to build
partnerships between Aboriginal communities and industry.
This is a unique opportunity to meet representatives from
the Aboriginal community, natural resources industry,
government, and other key stakeholders to discuss practical
steps that address issues in the energy resource sector of
Western and Northern Canada. We are sure you will not
want to miss this valuable opportunity to exchange practical
and strategic insights.
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From the Aboriginal Community:
• Chiefs, Leaders and Members of Aboriginal Communities
and Associations
• Senior Executives, Directors and Managers of:
- Consultation
- Economic Development
- Energy
- Land Management
- Natural Resources
From the Private Sector:
• Lawyers and Consultants Specializing in:
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Energy
- Environment
- Natural Resources
• Senior Executives, Directors, Managers and In-house
Counsel from:
- Electric, Utilities and Energy Companies
- Natural Resource Companies
From the Public Sector:
• Federal, Provincial and Municipal Representatives
• Senior Executives, Directors and Managers of:
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Capital Projects and Infrastructure
- Energy
- Natural Resources
- Policy and Strategic Planning
- Sustainable Development
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

4. 8:00 | Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 | Co-Chair’s Opening Remarks
9:05 | The Tsilhqot’in Decision – One Year Later
Bruce McIvor
Principal
First Peoples Law
• What has been done over the last year
• Implications for consultation and accommodation
9:50 | Comprehensive Community Planning is a Journey
Not a Destination
Alanna Mitchell
Community Planner
K’omoks First Nation
Pamela Shaw PhD MCIP RPP FRCGS
Planning Consultant
• An innovative, grass-roots approach to community involvement
• Putting new meaning to the term “comprehensive planning”
• The links to the Treaty process
10:50 | Networking Refreshment Break
11:10 | The Capacity Problem – Means for Engagement
Nicholette Prince
Chief Operating Officer
Nak’azdli Band
Lisa Walls
Regional Director, Pacific and Yukon Region
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
• Expectations versus reality, understanding and accounting for
community capacity during consultation
• Alternative means for increasing community capacity through
inter-community partnerships
• Recognizing and addressing Aboriginal rights and needs before,
during, and after project development
• Efficient means for addressing environmental assessments
12:10 | Networking Luncheon
1:10 | Traditional Knowledge, the Environment and Social
Acceptability of Resource Projects on Aboriginal Land
Chief Robert Chamberlin
Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis First Nation
Chair of the Musgamagw-Tsawataineuk Tribal Council
• Understanding and respecting community culture
• Breaking the silence and creating easily understood standards of
environmental stewardship
• Integration of Aboriginal traditional knowledge into environmental
assessment reports
• Ensuring the proper assessment of impacts to allow for a socially and
economically viable agreement
1:55 | Negotiate or Litigate – When and How to
Get Involved
Amyn F. Lalji
Partner
Miller Thomson LLP
• Negotiating and litigating, is there a contradiction?
• The value of early engagement and relationship building
• Strategies for mutually beneficial outcomes
2:40 | Networking Refreshment Break
3:00 | LNG and Pipelines – When and How to Move Forward
Chief Karen Ogen
Wet’suwet’en First Nation
Mai Rempel
Counsel
Dentons LLP
• Appropriate means for consultation before, during and after
project execution
• Developing consistent standards of environmental stewardship
• What are the risks? What are the solutions? And is it good enough?
• Long-term developments – revenue sharing and environmental security
4:00 | A Carrier Sekani LNG Success Story
Scott A. Smith
Associate
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Tribal Chief Terry Teegee
Carrier Sekani Tribal Council
• Explore how seven Carrier Sekani First Nations used an
integrated strategy for natural gas pipeline projects to create
leverage that resulted in landmark government-to-government
agreements with B.C.
• Identify critical pathways to achieving your community’s goals in a
post-Tsilhqot’in world
• Examine how to successfully secure direct economic benefits from,
or oppose, oil and gas projects
• Assess new ways to getting to “yes”, including by partnering with
Aboriginal communities as owners and operators of oil and gas projects
5:00 | Summation and Conference Concludes for the Day
Agenda
February 2,2016

5. 8:30 | Continental Breakfast
9:00 | Co-Chair’s Opening Remarks
9:05 | Enabling Meaningful First Nation and Métis Participation
in the Development of Natural Resource Projects
Chief Michelle Edwards
Cayoose Creek Indian Band
Grand Chief Robert Pasco
Nlaka’pamux Nation Tribal Council
• Programs to support capacity development for First Nation and
Métis communities
• Facilitating working relationships with Aboriginal communities
• True engagement for involving communities from project start to finish
• Commercial and business development on and off reserve
9:50 | Financing Strategies and Lowering Capital Costs
Harold Calla
Executive Chair
First Nations Financial Management Board
Candace Dennis
Director - Aboriginal Banking, British Columbia Yukon Division
BMO
• Management strategies to design a cost-effective portfolio
• Addressing community priorities to improve investment
decision-making process
• Modelling for uncertainty and setting investment assumptions
• Understanding and managing tenure, regulatory, and security risk
• Project economics, government loan guarantees and incentives,
preferential tax treatment, training and employment programs
• Innovative technologies as a means for lowering capital costs
10:50 | Networking Refreshment Break
11:10 | Advancing Aboriginal Industry through Power Generation
Annita McPhee
President
Annita McPhee Strategies
Garry Merkel
Chief Executive Officer
Tahltan Nation Development Corporation
• Business development and management strategies for
sustainable enterprises
• Creative ideas, building a competitive enterprise in the utility sector
• How to grow as a business and as a community
• Involving community members throughout the process – improving
local prosperity
12:10 | Networking Luncheon
Keynote Presentation
1:10 | Advancing Aboriginal Land Rights Post
Tsilhqot’in Decision
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
1:55 | Networking Refreshment Break
2:15 | More than Just Profits – Impact Benefit Agreements
and Resource Revenue Sharing
Rob Miller
Co-Founder
Miller Titerle + Company LLP
• Advancing financial transparency
• Benefit agreements with government and industries
– royalties, equity, and revenue sharing
• Ensuring the proper assessment of impacts to allow for
a socially and economically viable agreement
• Involving communities throughout the process – creating
employment and social security
• How to draft key agreements, ensuring key concerns
are prioritized
• Securing traditional land outside of legal and/or treaty processes
3:15 | Profiting Through Partnership
Chris Hartman
Chief Executive Officer
TFN Economic Development Corporation
• Joint opportunities for development through partnerships,
finding shared ground and understanding
• Creating meaningful partnerships & positive financial strategies
• Working together to build capital for major projects within
Aboriginal territories
• Choosing the right contractual vehicle and business structure
4:00 | Summation and Conference Concludes
Agenda
February 3,2016

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