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The episode discusses the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan's efforts to build Indigenous relationships and investment opportunities in Canada.

C$280bn fund building Indigenous relationships in Canada. OTPP's Robert Sturgeon and Suncor director JP Gladu on deal flow and a half-trillion pipeline. Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan manages nearly C$280 billion on behalf of 350,000 members and deploys roughly 30% in Canada. Senior Managing Director Robert Sturgeon tells Drumbeats about how the fund is prioritising building Indigenous relationships and better understanding the ecosystem, opportunities and challenges, as well as the interest they are seeing for investment in Canada. JP Gladu, Principal of Mokwateh and a Suncor Energy board director, sits on the Prime Minister's Major Projects Office Indigenous Advisory Committee, an 11-member body evaluating roughly C$500 billion in approved projects. Recorded at the third annual Canadian Indigenous Investment Summit at the City of London, this conversation covers: how Suncor's East Tank Farm enabled two First Nations to acquire a 49% equity stake in a billion-dollar-plus asset, why Indigenous partnership now lowers cost of capital and accelerates regulatory timelines, what the Major Projects Office is doing to clear seven federal ministries' worth of bottleneck, and how BHP…

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