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Students from throughout Canada came to Kamloops in January for a week of studies in real property taxation at the Tulo Centre of Indigenous Economics, located on the Thomson Rivers University campus.
Students, like Lise Steele of the We Wai Kai Nation, are helping to implement First Nation property taxation in their community. The First Nations are working at various stages of developing their own property taxation system as offered through the First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act (FSMA).
Steele spent a week learning about local revenue budgets and First Nation expenditure laws and rates laws in her APEC 1620 class. She says the training is helping her in her job as the newly-appointed tax administrator for We Wai Kai Nation, which has five designated reserve lands in BC. Four are on Quadra Island and the fifth in Quinsam is located on Vancouver Island in Campbell River.
Tulo courses align with her First Nation's initiatives currently underway. Along with undertaking sectorial self-government initiatives, such as establishing their own membership and land codes, We Wai Kai Nation is working with the FNTC in drafting its property taxation laws. The draft laws will be presented to the community upon completion.
Pleased with her progress in the program, Steele feels she is better equipped to coordinate the law notification process that she will be conducting in the community.
Gordon BlueSky of the Brokenhead Ojibway Nation (BON) is also studying First Nation property taxation at the Tulo Centre of Indigenous Economics. BlueSky is also interested in exploring the possibilities of how FSMA can benefit his reserve, which is located 30 minutes north of Winnipeg and home to the jointly-owned South Beach Casino and Resort.
Brokenhead Ojibway Nation has recently purchased new property outside of Winnipeg through its Treaty Land Entitlement, and Bluesky says his First Nation is considering property taxation as an addition to the legislation presently governing his First Nation.
Since his reserve was added to the FSMA Schedule through a Band Council Resolution, BlueSky says the Tulo course is equipping him with the appropriate technical skills to navigate the FSMA regulatory framework. He admits that property tax is a new field to him but he's excited by the successes experienced by his fellow classmates.