About.

BACKGROUND.

Prairie Lily Economic Development Corporation (PLEDC) is a for-profit Métis Economic Development Corporation based out of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Our focus is to be profitable and sustainable through partnerships, start-ups, and acquisitions. We want to achieve this goal by fostering business development and job creation.

VISION.

To be the most successful, profitable and sustainable Métis economic development corporation.

MISSION.

To be a sustainable Métis economic development corporation that fosters business development and job creation.

Core Values.

Our core values are the fundamental beliefs of our organization. These guiding principles dictate behavior and choices. Our core values also help us to determine if we are on the right path and fulfilling our goals by creating an unwavering guide.

You can have confidence in us. The Prairie Lily Economic Development Corporation.

Partners.

Our Friends.

Clarence Campeau Development Fund (CCDF)

The objective of the Fund is to stimulate economic development activities of Métis people and communities by providing equity for Métis businesses, support to community economic development initiatives, and assistance for the development of the management skills of new and existing Métis business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn more here.

Gabriel Dumont Institute (GDI)

Assisting Métis individuals interested in participating in the employment-based programming. Learn more here.

Northern Research Group (NRG) Inc.

NRG Inc. provides a wide array of consultancy services to federal and provincial government entities, industry, and First Nations and Métis clients. Learn more here.

History.

Métis Nation

Prince Albert is on Treaty 6 Land

Homeland of the Métis

“The Métis people originated in the 1700s when French and Scottish fur traders married Aboriginal women, such as the Cree, and Anishinabe (Ojibway). Their descendants formed a distinct culture, collective consciousness and nationhood in the Northwest.

Distinct Métis communities developed along the fur trade routes. This Métis Nation Homeland includes the three Prairie Provinces (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta), as well as, parts of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the Northern United States. The Métis Nation grew into a distinct culture and became a people in the Northwest prior to that territory becoming part of Canada. The Métis are one of the “Aboriginal peoples of Canada” within the meaning of s. 35 (2) of the Constitution Act, 1982.

Section 35 reads as follows:
s.35 (1) The existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed.
(2) In this Act, “aboriginal peoples of Canada” includes Indian, Inuit and Métis peoples of Canada. The Supreme Court in Powley held that the Métis have “full status as a distinctive rights-bearing peoples”, a characteristic they share with the Indian (First Nation) and Inuit peoples of Canada.
Canada has the only constitution in the world that recognizes a mixed-race culture, the Métis as a rights-bearing Aboriginal people.”
Source: Government of Canada. (2018). Métis Nation. Retrieved from the Government of Canada’s Library and Archives website: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/metis/Pages/introduction.aspx