AGA Update: Ktunaxa Business Promotion

By Donald Sam,
Interim Sector Director (Senior Manager)

We have been delivering many presentations on the Ktunaxa Ready Online Directory, presentations to all the industries such as Fortis BC, BC Hydro, Teck, Columbia Power, Steel River Solutions, Kicking Horse Canyon Constructors, TC Energy and many more.

These presentations are to showcase the Ktunaxa businesses and entrepreneurs, showing these industries that the Ktunaxa are a large part of the local economy and do have the knowledge and capacity to undertake work on their projects.

Working with TC Energy, we figured out a solution to an extremely sensitive project: Replacing all the old Trans Canada signage for the new TC Energy signs.

TCE needed a project coordinator that could employ Indigenous people from each community that the signs needed to be replaced. A Ktunaxa business was awarded the delicate project.

Projects upcoming in the next 12 months that we have been showcasing all the Ktunaxa Businesses to include:

• Fortis BC - IGU -2020-2023
• BC Hydro - 2021-2024 Natal substation
• Steel River Solutions – 2020-2023 Fortis IGU
• Kicking Horse Canyon Constructors –2021-2024- Kicking Horse road twinning
• Canfor - Firewood opportunity for Ktunaxa entrepreneurs and possibly a trucking opportunity.