This guideline by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) addresses Indian Act exemptions for employment income. The document is broken down into specific guidelines and corresponding examples.
National Center for First Nation Governance (NCFNG)
Year of publication:
2011
"Membertou’s impressive economic growth and self-sufficiency over the past 15 years has underlined the limitations of the Indian Act in defining citizens and restricting development due to regulations on land use."
"The objective of the Think Tank on Wealth Creation was to examine how wealth is created and how the journey of economic prosperity could be reached in a free market economy on reserve. What conditions and barriers exist that prevent the creation of wealth and prosperity? Inversely, what conditions must exist to build a meaningful and sustainable economy, especially absent from the creation and reliance on characteristics of dependency.
