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Industry Canada

Aboriginal Business Canada (ABC) is a branch of Industry Canada providing business services and support to Canadian status and non-status Indians, Inuit, and Metis individuals, associations, partnerships or other legal entities which are wholly or partly owned or controlled by Aboriginal people, on or off reserve. ABC works with Aboriginal entrepreneurs to promote the development, competitiveness and success of Aboriginal business in Canadian and world markets. It seeks to build a competitive, sustainable Aboriginal economy actively linked with the economies of Canada and the world.

We conducted a study to:

• Compare and contrast the characteristics and performance of ABC clients with Aboriginal businesses who are not ABC clients.
  
  
• Provide ideas and perspective on how ABC could improve its programming to better promote the development of Aboriginal businesses in Canada.

The study included a telephone survey of 500 past and present clients of ABC and 500 Aboriginal businesses that are not ABC clients. Analysis of responses by the two groups and comparison across the two groups as well as a number of multiple regression and factor analyses addressed these study requirements. In addition, comparisons will be drawn to secondary data on non-Aboriginal businesses.