Finding strength from within : How voluntary outside accreditation can advance First Nation communities

For the First Nations Financial Management Board (FNFMB), this paper proposes that the federal government continue financing the First Nations Financial Management Board and the First Nations Finance Authority. [...] The first is that the federal government ought to finance the cost of outside consultants that First Nations have to bring in to obtain ISO certification. [...] This Liberal-initiated paper proposed to change the relationship between First Nations and the Canadian state and to move First Nations closer to the mainstream. [...] The first is the First Nations Land Management Act (FNLMA), a regime where signatory First Nations are able to opt out of the land-management sections of the Indian Act and establish their own rules for managing their land and resources. [...] The certification that the FNFMB provides to First Nations is for facilitating their borrowing membership in the FNFA and securing a specific loan from the FNFA.