You hold an Indigenous obligation on a defence program or a major project. First Spear Group delivers it, from strategy to execution, as one accountable partner who knows how politics, capital and decisions actually move in Mi'kma'ki and Atlantic Canada.
ITB and Indigenous Benefits Plan commitments, procurement targets, community agreements and workforce pledges cross procurement, legal, finance, operations and communications, and they run on timelines set by Nations and governments, not by your schedule. We manage that work the way a general contractor manages a build: one accountable lead, the right specialists on the right scope, and the sequencing to get it delivered, evidenced and reported.
You need it planned, delivered and reportable to Canada, with Indigenous partners who can actually perform the scope. We build the plan, bring the partners, run the delivery and keep the evidence.
You need an Indigenous strategy that holds up with communities, regulators, lenders and your board. We design the engagement, structure the partnerships and manage the relationship through construction and into operations.
You need Indigenous capacity built, not promised. We design and deliver the programs, cohorts and centres of excellence that turn a procurement target or a Reconciliation commitment into measurable results.
You want ownership, not observation. The same team finds the opportunity, funds it through commercial and government capital, and builds alongside you until you own the outcome.
Indigenous project management for industry means the people who have to agree are talking, the people with authority are deciding, and nothing important stays invisible until it is a crisis. Five things we are accountable for on every engagement:
Atlantic Canada is short of people who understand how Indigenous politics, capital and decisions actually move, and who industry can hire to run it. That is the capacity First Spear Group brings: inside knowledge of the Nations, the agencies and the programs, and the discipline to deliver against your contract.
Everyone knows what the obligation actually requires, in your contract language and in the community's.
The right people are talking: your program office, the Nation's leadership, the EDC, the funder, the regulator.
The right decisions get made by the people with the authority to make them, on a schedule both sides can live with.
Risks surface before they become a crisis. Dependencies stay visible. Commitments are tracked and evidenced.
Different teams deliver one outcome, and that outcome is reportable to Canada and defensible in the community hall.
Engagement architecture, partnership design, governance and board-ready positioning for a bid, a program or a project. Grounded in treaty, protocol and how decisions are actually made.
ITB and IBP commitments, Indigenous content and procurement targets: planned, delivered, evidenced and reported. Built for the federal counting change scheduled for April 2027.
Qualified Indigenous suppliers, joint ventures, workforce pipelines and community agreements that hold up under audit and in front of Chief and Council.
Program design and delivery for accelerators, centres of excellence, cohorts and conferences, with the Nation as host and First Spear Group as delivery partner.
Opportunity assessment and deal origination. We see the supply chain entry points, the partners and the programs that others miss.
Funding architecture across capital markets, Indigenous lending and government programs, with regulated capital deployed through registered partners.
Specialists assembled, infrastructure built, capacity transferred. The end state is self-sufficiency, not a permanent advisor.
Defence and major project spending in this region will be governed for a generation by rules being written now. Primes and developers who get their Indigenous obligation right early will carry the advantage through every bid that follows.
The Government of Canada's mandatory minimum target for Indigenous procurement applies across departments and flows down into prime contracts.
The Canadian Defence Industrial Strategy sets the industrial-benefit expectations for the largest procurement cycle in decades, including Indigenous participation.
The Canadian Patrol Submarine Project and its Atlantic infrastructure, sustainment and training footprint bring multi-decade obligations to this region.
From April 2027, only work performed by and paid to Indigenous businesses is expected to count toward Indigenous procurement commitments. Pass-through arrangements will not.
Standing offer and on-call capacity agreement. Economic development and major projects readiness work for the Confederacy of Mi'kmaw Nations (formerly the Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq) and its member communities.
Strategic alliance in defence and aerospace, pairing First Spear Group's Indigenous strategy and delivery with JPOM Canada's defence access and government relations practice.
Community fisheries models research across the Atlantic region, awarded September 2026 and delivering through the 2026 to 2027 fiscal year.
Originated the opportunity and built the relationship between a Mi'kmaw community and a steelhead trout operator, with capital advisory through a registered exempt market dealer partner.
An operating community greenhouse business taken from concept through procedures, workforce and management, with community employment in place.
Client and community names appear with permission. Confidential engagements are described by sector only.
L'nu, Millbrook First Nation. Two decades in Mi'kmaw fisheries governance, treaty rights negotiation and economic development, including seven years as Fisheries Lead at Kwilmu'kw Maw-klusuaqn, the negotiation office of the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaw Chiefs. Director of Indigenous Relations at JPOM Canada. Member of the National Indigenous Economic Development Board, appointed September 2026.
Mi'gmaq, Listuguj First Nation. Lawyer and corporate director holding the ICD.D designation. Has represented the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaw Chiefs and negotiated Impact Benefit Agreements. Co-Chair of the Millbrook First Nation Economic Development Corporation and Director of AtlantiCan Growth Partners. At First Spear, leads agreement structure and governance on projects between industry and Indigenous communities. Founding Partner of Balsam, advising corporate and government clients on Reconciliation since 2021.
One conversation is enough to tell you whether First Spear Group is the right partner for your program or project, and what the first ninety days would look like.
