GSME and First Nations
Partners in Progress and Prosperity
Working Together to Build a Better Future Today

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GSME- Stands for “Global Success Made Easy”

“Global Success Made Easy” is very much the business mission of GSME and guides our strategic and operational approach to doing business and infrastructure development in different sectors, in different countries, and with different companies, institutions and peoples.

GSME is Canadian Company with a Global Business orientation that can operate around the world as its core capacities, and those of partner organizations, can be leveraged and utilized to support the successful achievement of business and business development opportunities.

GSME with partner and affiliated companies, organizations, and institutions can also get infrastructure development and improvement projects properly planned, financed, built, and operated.

Our focus of engagement and operations is with North America (Canada, the United States and Mexico) and with China.

GSME Infrastructure development and improvement initiatives are limited to Canada, the United States and Mexico – other countries are possible for inclusion in the future.

In Mexico, GSME has a considerable network that has been built over approximately 20 years that reaches throughout Mexico into its Business Community and Government and the Mexican Cultural, Arts and Academic sectors.

In China, GSME has a network that has been built over approximately 25 years and is even deeper and more extensive.
In Canada, GSME’s Business, Government, Arts and Cultural, and Social Network is still even deeper yet.

GSME is about people, companies and institutions with differing but complementary capabilities and capacities, who know and trust each other, working together to bring the necessary resources, capabilities, and expertise together to make things happen.
 
Were not “Economic Development Consultants.”
We don’t just undertake studies or develop plans that lead nowhere.
We are Business Enablers and Creators ….
Profitable Businesses, with Strong Competitive Positions.
GSME has been designed and set up to be an Economic Development Creator.
GSME can also be a solution for meeting the critical Infrastructure Needs.
And for Canada’s First Nations GSME can Assist in Meeting Critical Infrastructure and Housing Needs.
And this can be done for First Nations Across Canada……

As Partners in Progress and Prosperity
GSME and First Nations
Working Together
We can Build a Better Future

Progress can begin immediately.
Not Next Year, or Next Decade
New Businesses with Revenues and Equity Positions for First Nations
Employment Opportunities for First Nation Members.
New and Improved Infrastructure.

Water, Electricity, Housing, Medical and Education Facilities, Internet and Cell Connectivity and Service, Roads, Bridges, and more.
GSME has been set up to be action oriented and have the capabilities to create long lasting results in terms of infrastructure development and new business creation in short time frames.

GSME is a very specially created mechanism set up and designed in a way not only to enable rapid, efficient, creative and flexible decision-making and action, but also to enable things to be done that really could not be done before, and done in ways that could not be done before.

For Business:

GSME was set up to be an adaptive business creator, business enabler, and business support platform built on its core capacities, supported by the considerable additional capacities of partner and associated companies and institutions.

GSME uses its capacities creatively to align with the nature of an opportunity and its requirements to realize that opportunity in the most efficient, cost effective, and low risk way possible.
 
For Critical Infrastructure Development:

GSME can use its capacities to creatively to align with the nature of the infrastructure need, and to the requirements and challenges of meeting that infrastructure need in the most efficient, cost effective, and low risk way possible -- supported by the considerable additional capacities of partner and associated companies and institutions.

And for First Nations with Infrastructure Needs, GSME can also set up projects in a manner that will generate employment opportunities for First Nations members and indigenous peoples.

And for Infrastructure development we have a number of tools at our disposal and we have access too and can arrange deployment of multiple companies with different technological capabilities and expertise to address different problems and needs, that we can bring together, and structure in an integrated manner to enable comprehensive and systematic engagement to resolve infrastructure needs.

For instance, if a First Nation has water system improvement requirements, housing needs, and also has electricity needs, if engagement is structured and set up properly , all of these needs could potentially be addressed in a comprehensive and systematic manner – including addressing critical economic infrastructure requirements to enable a First Nation or a Group of First Nations to take advantage of an opportunity for new business development that first requires critical infrastructure to be put in place.

For Both Business Development and Infrastructure

Business Development and Economic Development

We  can flexibly structure our engagement and support to what the business sector, and the nature of a particular business opportunity, requires for success, and to the particular circumstances and needs of the partner First Nation that we work with in the manner required to make success the easiest, the fastest, the least costly, and the most certain to get the best results. These goals are not always mutually achievable. But these are GSME’s goals and objectives and guide how we approach business development.

By structuring a new business initiative properly and following the right path, success can be made much easier, far less risky, much more certain, and much more successful.

Good luck and Good fortune in business is really often the point where knowledge, preparation, and the right mix and alignment of capacities, meet opportunity.

At GSME it is our mission to make this happen.

• We are committed to finding the best opportunities.
• We are committed to finding the best positioning and the best way to realize those opportunities.
• We are committed to aligning our capacities and those of partner organizations and institutions to support what needs to be done.
• We are committed to make sure what needs to get done -- gets done.​​

Infrastructure Development

Similar to the GSME approach for business development, for infrastructure development, GSME has the ability to flexibly structure our engagement and support for infrastructure development and improvement to the particular nature of the identified infrastructure needs,  the practical realities of what will be required for successfully meeting the identified infrastructure needs, and to the particular circumstances and needs of the partner First Nation that we work with in the manner required to make success the easiest, the fastest, the least costly, and to get the best results possible.

At GSME:

• We are committed to finding a solution for an infrastructure need or problem.
• We are committed to finding the best approach for meeting that infrastructure need (in some cases that may mean finding the only available solution or even creating a new solution using the expertise, the technologies, and resources that we have available to us).
• We are committed to aligning our capacities and those of partner organizations and institutions to support what needs to be done.
• We are committed to make sure what needs to get done -- gets done.

 GSME Special Program to Assist First Nations in Canada

For Canada’s First Nations and Indigenous Peoples, GSME has created special additional capacities and a Program to support and assist First Nations to achieve “Equality of Economic Opportunity” and the “Standard of Living” and “Quality of Life” that First Nations and Indigenous peoples deserve to have, and a right to expect.

Infrastructure Development and Improvement ​

GSME can help get Necessary First Nation Infrastructure  in Canada Built -- and Built Much Faster than the Current Pace – and Probably Built Much Better as well.

Infrastructure such as:

• Human Use Water System Construction, Expansion and Upgrades;
• Energy and Electricity Generation Production Capacity;
• Power Grid Infrastructure Construction, Expansion, Connection and Upgrades;
• Residential Housing Development and Construction;
• Highway/Road Construction, Expansion and Upgrades;
• Hospital/Medical Facility Construction, Expansion and Upgrades;
• Construction of Nursing Homes and Retirement Homes for the Elderly;
• Education and Training Facility Construction, Expansion and Upgrades;
• Bridge Construction, Expansion and Upgrades;
• Railway Construction, Expansion and Upgrades;
• Agriculture Irrigation Projects to Support Agriculture Productivity and Production Improvements;
• Agri-Food and Seafood Processing and Distribution Infrastructure Construction, Expansion and Upgrades;
• IT and Telecom Infrastructure and Connectivity.
• Conference Centre, Business Centre and Trade Show Facility Construction, Expansion, and Upgrades;
• Port/Harbour Construction, Expansion, and Upgrades;
• Airport Construction, Expansion and Upgrades;
• Stadium and Arena, Construction, Expansion and Upgrades;
• Performance Art Theatre Construction, Expansion, and Upgrades;
• High Speed Rail Construction;

​Not all of these infrastructure areas may be needed for development or improvement by Canada’s First Nations Communities, but many of these things are needed, and some are critically needed.  However, assistance in all of these areas is possible if required by a First Nation.

GSME can bring in a great deal of business and Infrastructure development expertise, experience, and capacity, into supporting First Nations to solve infrastructure problems and be deployed in partnership with First Nations in business and infrastructure development.
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We can bring in capable companies from Canada that are experienced in developing and operating infrastructure in Canada – particularly for housing development and construction but also in other areas too – including IT and Telecom needs.

And from China we can bring in companies that are not only large and capable but also can bring large amounts of project financing with them, and who have successfully developed projects all over the world and who hold leading edge construction and engineering expertise in many areas.

Chinese companies have begun a huge wave of construction and infrastructure development that is already reshaping the world.
 
Before China started undertaking Infrastructure projects in other countries they first spent trillions of dollars over the last 20 years developing absolutely state of the art new infrastructure throughout China and developing world leading design, engineering, and construction capabilities undertaking some of the most difficult engineering projects.  Many of the world’s most impressive engineering accomplishments over the last 20 years have been in China, and over the last decade mostly by Chinese firms, using Chinese construction and engineering technology.  In the early days, China brought in the best engineering and construction expertise from around the world to help out and to learn from. And learn China’s firms did, but not only did they learn the best existing technology and “know-how”, they further developed and improved those engineering and construction technologies, techniques, and that “know-how”.  China’s infrastructure companies have now built up world leading engineering and construction capabilities in many areas. 

All the engineering and construction challenges that have had to be met and overcome in developing these projects have allowed China’s major Infrastructure engineering and construction companies to become highly expert at being able to build almost anything, anywhere, and to do it on time, and on budget.

Business Insider.com outlines well a few of these major infrastructure project inside (and some outside) of China which China’s infrastructure companies have built, or are in the process of building:

https://www.businessinsider.com/108-giant-chinese-infrastructure-projects-that-are-reshaping-the-world-2011-12#900-million-the-tianhuangping-hydroelectric-project-is-the-biggest-in-asia-and-plays-a-vital-role-in-providing-power-supply-in-eastern-china-8
https://www.businessinsider.com/giant-chinese-infrastructure-projects-that-are-reshaping-the-world-2016-6#760-million-the-building-thats-home-to-china-central-tv-headquarters-is-a-loop-of-six-horizontal-and-vertical-sections-covering-1551837-feet-7
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China’s Technology in a Number of Areas is considered to be Superior and it is set to Rapidly to Get Even Better.
https://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2010/12/07/7-technologies-where-china-has-us-beat
https://www.scmp.com/business/global-economy/article/2081771/be-afraid-china-path-global-technology-dominance

Projects have included Financing and Building Entire Towns – Such as the Baltic Pearl Project
US$1.3 Billion - Baltic Pearl Project

On the coast of the Gulf of Finland, south-west of St Petersburg, China is building a new town for 35,000 residents --with US$1.3 billion of investment from China’s Financial Services Sector.
When finished, the town will have 14,000 apartments, five schools and nine kindergartens, as well as shopping centres, restaurants and cinemas.

Financing and Building Entire Economic Areas Such as the China-Pakistan Corridor:
US$24.5 Billion - China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

An enormous project to connect Gwadar port in southern Pakistan to the west of China involves roads, railways and oil and gas pipelines. When the corridor is finished, it will serve as the main gateway for trade between China and the Middle East and Africa.  A plan to build an airport at Gwadar has also been agreed to, as well as the laying of fibre-optic cables between the Chinese border and Rawalpindi.

Financing and Building Massive Power Generation Projects
US$1.15 Billion - West Texas Wind Farm

In 2011, Chinese companies signed a deal to develop a 36,000 acre wind farm in West Texas, one of the largest in the United States. Chinese-made turbines will power the plant. Chinese financial entities are providing $1.15 billion in financing for the project to enable its development.

US$984 Million - Nigeria's Zungeru Hydroelectric Power Plant

The building of a 700MW dam on the Niger river, roughly 90 miles from Abuja. Construction will take five years and three-quarters of the cost will be loaned by China to Nigeria for 20 years.

Financing and Building Major Road and Railway Projects
US$9.9 Billion - Nigeria's High-Speed Railway

A project to roll out an 860-mile high speed railway across Nigeria for trains travelling at 75mph.

US$8.5 Billion - Algeria's East-West Highway Project

An ambitious project to build a six-lane road across Algeria.
When finished the highway will run 756 miles from the Moroccan border to the Tunisian border, connecting Algeria's coastal cities.

GSME has access to, and can bring in multiple Chinese companies – including some of the largest and most technological and financially capable – as required -- for technically and financially viable projects, that are structured properly, and undertaken through appropriate processes. And financing and investment can be arranged for projects.

GSME can Create Companies with First Nations, which the First Nation would have an equity position in, to Build, Maintain, and “Operate” Infrastructure that First Nations derive Revenues and gain significant Employment from. Both to meet First Nation Critical Infrastructure Needs and to Meet Canada’s broader infrastructure needs.

GSME can bring First Nations and their members into working on Major non First Nation Infrastructure projects that Canada requires to meet the countries infrastructure needs – in with GSME and its Associated companies.

It has been estimated that Canada Needs more than $500 Billion in new Infrastructure over the next few years.

GSME can help Reduce First Nations Economic Leakage.

• GSME can create profitable businesses set-up on First Nations Reserves suffering significant economic leakage to help keep the First Nations Money in the First Nation -- employing members of the First Nation with First Nation partial ownership of projects/business (could be majority owned by First Nation in certain circumstances)
• GSME can create profitable Businesses and Attractions set up on First Nations to Bring Non First Nations People (“Customers”) onto the Reserve to Spend Money. This is easier done for First Nations near urban areas but it can also be done for First Nations in rural areas under the right circumstances.

GSME can help Close the Business and Economic Opportunity Gap in Canada for First Nations and Indigenous Peoples

• Find and create new businesses and employment generating opportunities that can result in real sustainable commercial business and success for First Nations.
• Bring existing Canadian companies and businesses in to work collaboratively with First Nations in joint ventures in their already successfully operating business areas -- creating new aboriginal businesses and substantial aboriginal employment in those areas.
  
• Bring First Nations into, and benefiting from, the International Business of GSME and its partners and affiliates with China, Mexico and the United States.
  
• New Businesses can be created both on and off Reserves.
  
• Businesses Opportunities can be developed with both Rural and Urban First Nations.
  
• Support can be provided to existing First Nations and Indigenous Businesses to expand capacity, increase sales and enter new   markets.

      
Business Areas Include:

• Food and Beverages;
• Consumer Products;
• Commercial Real Estate Development;
• Theme Park and Resort Development;
• Tourism;
• Medical Technology and Medical Services;
• Senior and Elderly Care Services;
• Agriculture and Agriculture Technology;
• Aquaculture and Aquaculture Technology;
• Education and Training Services;
• Information and Internet Technology and Internet Services.

Business Areas in Canada that GSME will be Providing Support and Assistance Exclusively for First Nation Business Development

There are certain business areas in Canada that GSME will be providing support and assistance to only as part of First Nation Business Development

• Environmental Technologies;

• Environmental Assessment Services;

• Environmental Remediation;

• Natural Resource and Energy Businesses and Projects;
  
  • (Emphasis will be placed on Clean Energy Businesses and Projects)
  •  Electricity Generation Business and Projects
  • Mining Projects and Development
  • Forestry;
  • Oil and Gas Businesses/Projects in First Nation led initiatives.

First Nations should be involved and deriving major benefits from Natural Resource and Energy Businesses or Projects that are on their lands, or affect their lands.  First Nations should have a principal role in shaping and designing those projects. And they should be equity partners in these projects.

If a project can be demonstrated to have sufficient feasibility and viability. GSME is prepared to engage with, and support First Nations, in obtaining equity positions in projects, and in securing financing for such projects. GSME can bring in major international companies with the technical, managerial capacities as partners for those projects from countries that will be major markets for the output of those projects.

The largest and best market in the world for most Natural Resource and Energy Products is China – although the mix of what they are looking for is changing. And when considering new energy projects with China being a key market for the outputs of a project, the changing nature of China’s energy demand must be a principal project consideration.

Tremendous new opportunities will be opening up in some areas for sales to China, while in others demand will be weakening.

For technically, financially, economically, “regulatorily” and “politically” viable projects in a number of natural resource and energy sectors GSME could bring in Chinese companies with the capabilities to develop the project with local Canadian support that we set up for them, and to sell the production/output of these natural resource and energy projects throughout North America and into China.  GSME can also assist in structuring the arrangements and securing the financing. Under the right circumstances, equity positions for the First Nation could be secured, in addition to employment opportunities for First Nation members. However,  Natural Resource and Energy Projects will need to first be technically, financially, economically, “regulatorily” and “politically”  assessed  to determine their  levels of risk  and profitability – and whether they are definitely viable, GSME can help First Nations do that in the form and extent necessary to meet the requirements of the companies and financing that we would be targeting from China and North America.

To make sure that an initiative is successful GSME and/or its affiliated companies and institutions can assist and support the First Nation from the initial stages all the way through to the operational stage, and provide ongoing support and assistance as required to ensure that the business continues to operate successfully over the long term. Projects would be structured in a manner to make certain that the Project and the First Nation has the necessary ongoing support to make sure that things work.

 Large scale projects are possible if they are planned and developed properly, and sufficient levels of First Nation and Government support can be put in place.
 
GSME Financing, Investment, and Regulatory Support for Infrastructure and Business Development with First Nations

GSME can bring high levels of Financing and Investment into supporting First Nations Critical Infrastructure Development and Economic Development if economically and technically viable projects with First Nations can be developed and confirmed.
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GSME can:

• Bring in Canadian Private Sector Investment into Projects and new Business.
• Help secure Canadian Commercial Bank Financing for Businesses and Projects.
• Help secure the necessary Government of Canada Approvals for Government Funding and Financial Support, and other necessary support.
• With the assistance of Uniquantum and other associated companies, raise large amounts of Financing and Investment from China, and bring Chinese companies into business initiatives and infrastructure projects in Canada on a potentially large scale.
• Create new Sales to other countries and International Export Businesses for First Nations.

• Help Get First Nations in on, and economically benefitting from, project work in other Countries.

• Find, Set Up and Support successful Business Projects and Operations in China and Mexico, and the United States (including arranging for financing and investment, and handling operations).

Other Potential GSME Assistance

• GSME could support the training and mentoring of First Nations peoples in business, finance and international trade and international business, and help set up First Nations in apprenticeship situations with non aboriginal firms.
• GSME could potentially assist employment placement of First Nations members and indigenous peoples across Canada in a number of sectors – and potentially in substantial numbers.
• GSME could potentially help facilitate the provision of Critical Services for First Nations in Medical/Health Care and Education.
• GSME could also bring in cultural and art support to First Nations, using the strong relations with entities and networks in China and Mexico, and its own network in Canada.

For instance, with Uniquantum’s assistance, GSME may be able to help facilitate culture exchanges in the Performing Arts area with China. Uniquantum has ties to China’s Elite Performing Arts Sector. Uniquantum also has the Performing Arts as one of its targeted areas to invest in, and finance.
 
Partners in Progress and Prosperity
GSME & First Nations
Building a Better Future Together

Our interest, and objective, is to engage with First Nations Business, Economic and Infrastructure Development in a substantial way and work together with First Nations and support First Nations as “Partners for Progress and Prosperity.”
Working together much can be achieved.

There are significant business and economic development opportunities that exist even for rural and relatively remote First Nations if they are properly supported, the key requirements for business success are understood and met, and the necessary processes followed.
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And much should be able to be done with respect to infrastructure for Canada’s First Nations. GSME has a number of tools and instrumentalities that can be flexibly packaged and deployed to address First Nation infrastructure needs – even the most challenging ones.

There is a very real possibility to generate large scale:

• First Nation Community Employment (full-time, part-time and seasonal);
• Training of First Nation Community Members;
• First Nation Community Business Start-ups and Expansions;
• First Nation Community Government Revenues;
• First Nation Community Infrastructure Development;

​And there also is a very real possibility to:

• Put First Nations much more fully in a Leadership Position and Masters of their own Destinies and Outcomes for their Peoples.
• Strengthen the position of First Nations and Indigenous peoples in Canada in dealing with Federal and Provincial Governments, in dealing with Canada’s Business and Financial Sectors, and in engaging with Non First Nations Peoples and Communities across Canada.

• Increase the ability to obtain Positive Outcomes.

Enabling First Nations to Take Control
To Deal from a Position of Strength
To Build the Future that they Want and Deserve for Themselves and their Peoples
With GSME Supporting
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Contact GSME to begin the process for your First Nation or Indigenous Business by learning more.

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Critical Success Factors ​

​GSME may be able to help your First Nation.
As Business Enablers and Creators of Profitable First Nation and Indigenous Businesses, with Strong Competitive Positions…..
Supporting Economic Development for your First Nation.
GSME may also able to Assist in Getting your First Nation’s Critical Infrastructure and Housing Needs Met.
Working Together with your First Nation to Build a Better Future
As Partners in Progress and Prosperity
Building a Better Future Together
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