Our Story Began With a Simple Question
In 2015, a proposed pipeline route through three Indigenous communities in northern Alberta triggered consultations that left residents feeling unheard and frustrated. The government checked boxes. The company held information sessions. But genuine dialogue? That was missing.
Our founders — a former city councillor, a community organizer, and a public policy researcher — saw this gap repeatedly across Canada. Public consultations that felt performative. Town halls where the loudest voices dominated. Important decisions made before communities even knew they were happening.
So they asked: what if we built something different? An organization dedicated not to any particular outcome, but to the integrity of the process itself?
