"Across the country, we're seeing a huge renaissance of vibrant entrepreneurship among the First Nation, Inuit and Metis," says Clint Davis, chief executive of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business. Until recently, Davis says he and others who work in the sector realized this renaissance was translating into a significant contribution to the economy by Canada's Aboriginal peoples. "But we were not able to put a number to it," he says. That changed this past June when TD Economics released its special report, "Estimating the Size of the Aboriginal Market in Canada." Its findings: Aboriginal households, businesses and governments will reach $24 billion this year and balloon to an estimated $32 billion in 2016. It went on to say that Aboriginal peoples have been making their mark across a number of goods and services areas, but the big boom in the last decade has been in Western Canada's resource and construction sectors.
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