New Frontiers in the Internationalization of Businesses

8     The Internationalization of First Nations and Métis-Owned Businesses

Introduction

In the world, there are more than 370 million Indigenous people spread across 70 countries (United Nations, 2015). In Canada, there were 1.4 million people that had an indigenous identity in 2011 (Statistics Canada, 2011) and that number increased to 1.6 million in 2016 (Statistics Canada, 2017). The number of self-employed Indigenous people was 54,255 in 2016 (Statistics Canada, 2016). Of the self-employed Indigenous people, Belanger-Baur (2019) estimates that there are approximately 13,770 Indigenous businesses with 1 paid employee or more (but no more than 499 employees). Indigenous people, in Canada, contribute to the national economy an estimated ...