Coalition aims to put First Nations in the driver's seat on major projects

Tired of waiting for major construction projects to come to them, a growing coalition of First Nations is instead taking the lead on ventures to better control their economic futures.
“We really are in a place looking to diversify our economies,” said Jasmine Thomas, a councillor of the Saik’uz First Nation in central British Columbia.
“Really moving away from projects proposed and imposed on us, and changing that whole direction to projects that we’re leading, and