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Last Updated March 10, 2010

About CAID

Aboriginal economic developments and Indigenous trade and commerce systems must be founded upon traditional values and roles to be sustainable. CAID resulted from the recognition for a need to provide a not-for-profit, non-governmental service (NGO) able to help reestablish these traditional Aboriginal infrastructures. CAID is designed to share professional expertise with Aboriginal people through a process of meaningful consultation.

CAID’s objective is to help Aboriginal people rebuild self-sustaining infrastructure in a traditional framework. Culturally appropriate infrastructures will empower permanent solutions to problems plaguing Aboriginal communities. By enabling tradition-based indigenous infrastructure development, Aboriginal people can live traditional lives with modern sustainable economic developments that integrate culture-based businesses and institutions into the global system. These reestablished Aboriginal societal infrastructures will reverse aboriginal poverty cycles and empower Aboriginal people to choose their own destiny.

Canada declared an end to its policies of forced Aboriginal assimilation. Unfortunately, through forced assimilation policies still embedded throughout Canada’s infrastructure, Canadian federal and provincial governments and programs still withhold funds and expertise to prevent Aboriginal Peoples' rights from being realized. Aboriginal People have no funds to finance, and no infrastructure to facilitate, rebuilding what Canada has destroyed. CAID's facilitory role is to identify, define, and harmonize missing aboriginal infrastructure with modern infrastructure to bring traditional values and lifestyles into the global system.

CAID is not a church, does not build churches and is not a religion. CAID was founded by people who believe in sharing freely. We understand “free” to include expertise and knowledge.

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