Oct 16 2024 9 mins
In this episode, John Valley, a partner in the Corporate Group at Osler and a co-author of the Diversity Disclosure Practices report, interviews Mark Podlasly, a member of the Nlaka’pamux Nation in British Columbia. Mark is the Chief Sustainability Officer at the First Nations Major Projects Coalition, a national 170+ member First Nations organization dedicated to ensuring Indigenous environmental and economic values are incorporated into major projects in traditional territories. He is a board director at CIBC and Hydro One, serving on the audit and human resources committees, and is a trustee of his First Nation’s mining revenue trust fund. Mark was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General of Canada for founding Teach for Canada, a non-profit organization that works with northern First Nations to recruit and support committed teachers.