Indigenous Relations. Parties agree to work together to improve the socio- economic outcomes of Indigenous/Inuit individuals to explore collaborating and learning from one another to share approaches and best practices. Among others, this would include issues faced by communities in both jurisdictions such as further bolstering food security and sovereignty issues, provision of safe drinking water and economic development to further the prosperity of communities.
Indigenous Relations. BCE recognizes the diverse backgrounds of all of our employees and we acknowledge a special relationship with our Indigenous employees. We recognize that the term Indigenous is not one size fits all term, but encompasses a long history of different traditions and customs and groups of people in Canada. We offer the opportunity for all of our Indigenous employees to have their culture, traditions and customs respected and celebrated. To this end, we commit to the following: - Providing diversity training to all employees, both hourly and salaried. - Providing traditional tipis at: o Wapasu x Xxxxxxx x Xxxxxx River - Establishment of an Indigenous committee at Wapasu, one
