Indigenous Infrastructure Fund Corporation
The Indigenous Infrastructure Fund Corporation was established in 2021 to address the over $30 billion infrastructure deficit in First Nation, Inuit, and Metis communities across Canada.
Our structure
The Corporation is registered in the Province of British Columbia. The founding registered shareholders of the Corporation are majority-shareholder W Dusk Energy Group, an Indigenous-owned entity incorporated in the Province of British Columbia, and minority-shareholder TUGLIQ Energy Corporation, a Québec-based enterprise incorporated under Canadian federal law.
The challenge
The Corporation’s overarching goal is to establish a recurring, self-sustaining fund to finance the infrastructure needs of Indigenous communities in ways that facilitate community-owned and operated assets, institutions, and services and promote long-term economic and social self-governance. The Corporation works in partnership with all levels of government, public utilities, financial institutions, investment firms, pension funds, major corporations, academic institutions, private foundations, philanthropic and family trusts, and international funding agencies. The intent is to leverage public monies with private financial resources to co-invest with Indigenous financing in infrastructure projects.
Investement priorities
The Fund’s initial priority will be to support infrastructure undertakings – including retrofits and upgrades – that are community-based, owned, and operated, promoting self-sufficiency in energy, health, nutrition, education, internet, water, waste management, housing, and social well-being.
Consultations are underway with various financial institutions and government agencies to assemble financial resources to complete ten pilot projects in select communities. A dozen completions will be targeted by 2030, with several dozens to be completed by 2035.
To pursue these projects, a board and management team have been assembled with representation from across Canada and from Canada’s main indigenous parentages.
Our team
The Indigenous Infrastructure Fund is guided by a Board of Directors drawn from across Canada among uniquely qualified Indigenous and non-Indigenous volunteers dedicated to promoting investments that support the goals and priorities of Canada’s Reconciliation Agenda. Our Founding Board of Directors includes:
Chief Executive Officer
James Delorme
Chair
Pierre Rivard, Executive Chair, TUGLIQ Energy Corp.
First Vice-Chair
David Isaac, President and CEO, W Dusk Energy Group
Treasurer
Director of Finance, Hamlet of Gjoa Haven, Nunavut
Coorporate Secretary
Assistant Professor•UBC Peter A. Allard School of Law
Chief Financial Officer
To be announced
Directors
Frank Bush
Frank Came
Marvin DeVries
Tom Dustyhorn
Jonathan Game
Andrea Hilland
David Isaac
Mary Ann Morin
Rose Paul
Pierrre Rivard
Vicky Sharpe
Vernon Winitana (Aotearoa)
Australian member of the Board (TBA To Be Announced)
Our vision.
“A recurring, self-sustaining source of funding for the development of infrastructure among Indigenous communities, deploying appropriately-sized Canadian innovations in water, waste management, renewable energy, communications, food security, housing and health and education capabilities, packaged to be replicable in remote communities in Canada and potentially abroad.”
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