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PAR - Progressive Aboriginal Relations |
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What is PAR? |
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How PAR works |
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How to get started |
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Companies in PAR |
What is PAR?
PAR, or Progressive Aboriginal Relations, is the first program of its kind in the world. Its purpose is to help organizations gauge and improve their commitment to Aboriginal relations, and to earn the right to use a hallmark to demonstrate their achievements.
How will it benefit my business?
PAR will help you to engage Aboriginals as employees, partners, customers, suppliers, and community representatives. Your business can be enriched by the skills, energy, and culture of Canada’s fastest growing demographic.
How will it benefit Aboriginal Canada?
Your organization will create long-term benefits for the Aboriginal community when you implement the PAR program. Individual Aboriginals will gain from training, education, and employment opportunities. Aboriginal companies will benefit as partners and suppliers. And the whole community will be enriched by ties of friendship and mutual respect and the transfer of skills and knowledge.
implementing PAR?
They include some of the most established names in corporate Canada. Their fields of operation range from Bay Street boardrooms to Arctic mines. They all have one thing in common: they’ve earned the PAR hallmark, and the trust of Canada’s Aboriginal communities. These are just some of them.
Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries
BMO Financial Group
Cameco
Canada Post Operations Division
Diavik Diamond Mines
EnCana
ESS Support Services Worldwide
IBM
Manitoba Lotteries Corporation
SaskTel
Scotiabank
Sodexho
Syncrude
WWF
Xerox
What is involved?
Implementing PAR is a process of change, and it requires some work. You will have to examine your organization from top to bottom, build on what you’re doing right, and establish where there are opportunities for improvement in your relations with Aboriginal people and communities. You’ll have to decide how to weave your corporate commitment throughout the fabric of the organization; how to enlist the commitment of your managers and employees; and how to assess your corporate performance and measure results.
Why is PAR necessary?
The Aboriginal sector is growing in educational and employment capacity, technical skills, purchasing power, and control over land and resources. Canada’s Aboriginal people and communities want their fair share of wealth and prosperity– and they want to work with companies that are prepared to enter into mutually beneficial business relationships. PAR will help you to build those relationships.
What’s the bottom line?
There is a solid business case for implementing Progressive Aboriginal Relations. PAR rewards companies for demonstrating continuous improvement in their engagement with the Aboriginal community as they move through the various levels of the program. PAR is a roadmap for win-win relationships where corporations gain in profit, goodwill, and human resources while Aboriginal communities are enriched by development, trade, and communication.
