Ken Coates, Senior Fellow in Aboriginal and Northern Canadian Issues at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute noted that Canada’s Indigenous Peoples have often not received their fair share of benefits from resource development,” the report suggested. “Many witnesses spoke about the importance of engaging Indigenous peoples as partners in natural resource development. The Committee believes that engaging Indigenous peoples as partners who share in the benefits of pipeline projects – ideally, as some witnesses pointed out, through equity shares in projects – is critical to the success of a crude oil transport strategy.