Making Markets Work on First Nations Lands: The Role of the Land Title System in Reducing Transaction Costs. Apr 2009. Prepared for the First Nations Tax Commission.

 

Southern Returns to Northern Investment: Estimating the Economic and Fiscal Returns Realized in Southern Canada from Public Infrastructure Investment in Support of Major Resource Development in the Northern Territories. Dec 2015. Prepared for the Strategic Research Directorate, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada.

 

Investing in Canada’s Future Prosperity: An Economic Opportunity for Canadian Industries – Part II of Reconciliation: Growing Canada’s Economy by $27.7 Billion. Mar 2017. Prepared for the National Indigenous Economic Development Board.

 

The Business Case for a New First Nations Infrastructure Institution. Mar 2017. Prepared for the First Nations Tax Commission.

 

An Analysis of the Federal Carbon Pricing Backstop on First Nations Households. Mar 2018. Prepared for Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada.

 

First Nations Infrastructure Institute Business Plan in Brief and Background Papers. Apr 2018. Prepared for the First Nations Infrastructure Institute Technical Team.

 

Rationales for FNII’s Proposed Establishment and Organization. Sep 2020. Prepared for First Nations Infrastructure Institute Technical Team.

 

Rationales for FNII’s Proposed Mandate and Purposes. Dec 2020. Prepared for First Nations Infrastructure Institute Technical Team.

 

Rationales for FNII’s Proposed Functions and Powers. Dec 2020. Prepared for First Nations Infrastructure Institute Technical Team.

 

Policy Work Supporting the Development of Project Charter Standards. Dec 2023. Prepared for the First Nations Infrastructure Institute Technical Team.

 

Policy Work Supporting the Development of Strategic Case Standards. Jan 2024. Prepared for the First Nations Infrastructure Institute Technical Team.

 

Policy Work Supporting the Development of Technical Case Standards. May 2024. Prepared for the First Nations Infrastructure Institute Technical Team.

 

Policy Work Supporting the Development of Commercial Case Standards. Oct 2024. Prepared for the First Nations Infrastructure Institute Technical Team.

 

Policy Work Supporting the Development of Financial Case Standards. Nov 2024. Prepared for the First Nations Infrastructure Institute Technical Team.

 

Policy Work Supporting the Development of Management Case Standards. Dec 2024. Prepared for the First Nations Infrastructure Institute Technical Team.

 

Economic and Fiscal Impact Estimates for Whitecap Dakota Nation. Oct 2024. Prepared for Whitecap Dakota Nation.

 

Preliminary Estimates of Expected Economic Impacts Associated with a Hypothetical Scenario Developed for Demonstration Purposes. Apr 2025. Prepared for the First Nation Lands Management Resource Centre. 

 

Preliminary Estimates of Economic and Fiscal Impacts Generated by Off Reserve Spending by Roseau River Households and by Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation. May 2025. Prepared for Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation under contract with the First Nations Tax Commission.

 

The Aboriginal Resource Tax: Closing the Infrastructure Gap. Richard, Greg. Canadian Federalism and Infrastructure. Institute of Intergovernmental Relations. 2015. https://www.queensu.ca/iigr/sites/iirwww/files/uploaded_files/PDF%20Publications/SOTF%202015%20book.pdf.

 

Expanding Commercial Activity – Reducing the Costs of Doing Business on First Nations’ Lands. Fiscal Realities Economists. 1999. Presented to the Indian Taxation Advisory Board and Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (INAC).

 

Unlocking  First  Nation  wealth:  Past  efforts  and  future  opportunities. Le Dressay, A. 2016. In  T.  L.  Anderson (Ed.) Unlocking the wealth of Indian Nations, Rowman & Littlefield.

 

Benefits of property taxation and a new service agreement template for TLE First Nations. Fiscal Realities Economists. 2015. Presented to the First Nations Tax Commission.

 

Expanding the First Nation private sector: The rule of investor codes. Fiscal Realities Economists. 2004. Presented to the First Nations Tax Commission and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.

 

Evolving First Nations Service Populations: Challenges, Impacts & Implications. Fiscal Realities Economists. 2018. Prepared for Assembly of First Nations & Department of Indigenous Services Canada.

 

Fiscal Models Supporting Comparability of Funding for Indigenous Self-Governments. Fiscal Realities Economists. 2017. Prepared for Land Claims Agreements Coalition to support Fiscal Policy Development Process for Self-Governing First Nations. 

 

Chapter 7: First Nations Employment, Skills & Mobility. Now is the time: Our Data, Our Stories, Our Future – The National Report of the First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education, and Employment Survey. Lavallee, N.J. 2016. Prepared for the First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC). https://fnigc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FNIGC_FNREEES-National-Report-2016-EN_FINAL_01312017.pdf. 

 

Supporting First Nation Enterprise Development II. Fiscal Realities Economists. 2012. Prepared for the Strategic Research Directorate of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.

 

First Nation Export Strategies. Fiscal Realities Economists. 2011. Prepared for the Strategic Research Directorate of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.

 

Supporting First Nation Enterprise Development. Fiscal Realities Economists. 2011. Prepared for the Strategic Research Directorate of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.

 

First Nation Own Source Revenues. Fiscal Realities Economists. 2009. Prepared for the First Nations Tax Commission and INAC Research and Analysis Directorate. 

 

Moving at the Speed of Business: A Possible Path to First Nation Prosperity Starts with Efficiency; Le Dressay, Lavallee, Reeves. Oct 2024. Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, Vol 14 No 2.
Available at https://jaed.ca/index.php/jaed/article/view/478/477

 

Specific Claims Compensation and Economic Reconciliation – Preliminary Estimates of Potential Economic Impact from First Nations Expenditures of Specific Claims Compensation. Mar 2024. Prepared for Specific Claims Branch, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada.
Available at https://www.niedb-cndea.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Fiscal-Realities-Specific-Claims-Compensation-and-Economic-Reconciliation.pdf

 

Reducing Transaction Costs on Infrastructure Corridor Projects in Canada; Le Dressay, Calla, Reeves. University of Calgary, School of Public Policy Publications Research Paper; Vol. 15:11 | Mar 2022; Canadian Northern Corridor Special Series.
Available at https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/sppp/article/view/73464/55761

 

Reconciliation: Growing Canada’s Economy by $27.7 Billion. Nov 2016. Prepared for the National Indigenous Economic Development Board.
Available at https://www.niedb-cndea.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/naedb_report_reconciliation_27_7_billion.pdf

 

Improving the Economic Success of Urban Additions to Reserves; Achieving Benefits for First Nations and Local Governments – Stage II: Economic and Fiscal Benefits Generated in Urban ATRs. Nov 2014. Prepared for the National Indigenous Economic Development Board.
Available at https://www.niedb-cndea.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/improving-the-economic-success-of-urban-atr.pdf

 

The Business Case for a Northern Economic Infrastructure System. Jun 2015. Prepared for the National Indigenous Economic Development Board.
Available at https://www.niedb-cndea.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/business-case-northern-economic-infrastructure-system.pdf

 

Improving the Economic Success of Urban Additions to Reserves – Stage I: Identifying Success Factors in Urban First Nations. Oct 2014. Prepared for the National Indigenous Economic Development Board.
Available at https://www.niedb-cndea.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMPROVING-THE-ECONOMIC-SUCCESS-OF-URBAN-ADDITIONS-TO-RESERVES.pdf

 

First Nations Trade, Specialization, and Market Institutions: A Historical Survey of First Nations Market Culture; Le Dressay, Lavallee, Reeves. 2010. Western University, Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International.
Available at https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1372&context=aprci