Truth and Reconciliation
Scotiabank acknowledges the barriers the financial system has created for Indigenous Peoples, impacting their economic advancement, and the significant work to be done to rebuild relationships of trust among Indigenous employees, clients and communities.
Our collective imperative
Scotiabank is committed to a journey of Reconciliation with First Nations, Inuit and Métis, rooted in truth and co-development.
Truth & Reconciliation Action Plan
Trust is built with not just words but actions. Our Action Plan sets out 37 actionable commitments to establish relationships of trust between Scotiabank and Indigenous employees, clients, and communities.
Statement of Truth and Reconciliation
Reconciliation is the result of consistent, deliberate and ongoing education, understanding and engaged action.
Our journey so far
Cultivating the conditions for change and growth through partnerships, sponsorships, and innovating collaborations across Kanata*.
Access, participation and inclusion
We are committed to creating social, cultural and economic pathways of opportunity for Indigenous Peoples.
Employees
Working to remove barriers and support Indigenous employees to feel confident and welcome as they pursue a career with Scotiabank.
Clients and Procurement
Working to create reciprocal financial relationships based on trust and respect to help achieve prosperity for current and future generations.
Communities
Supporting Indigenous communities through education, employment, partnership, and collaboration.
Mukluks, photography and artwork
Mukluks have an animate spirit that needs care. Scotiabank commissioned a pair of mukluks as a living metaphor of the commitment we are all walking as Treaty People towards meaningful and lasting Reconciliation.
The photos depicted on this page, taken by Métis photographer Faithe McGuire, showcase the making of Scotiabank’s mukluks. As well, the illustrations shown here, created by Ojibwe graphic designer Joshua Hunt, represent various florals and graphic elements based on past works by Mukluk Métis artisan Heidi Houle.
Partnerships
Moose Hide Campaign
An Indigenous-led grassroots movement to raise awareness and help end violence against Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people.
Indigenomics Institute
The Institute provides economic advisory services that support the growth and development of Indigenous economies.
Phyllis Webstad
An important part of this journey is to hear and learn from the lived experience of residential school survivors. Listen to Phyllis Webstad’s story and journey of healing.
Impact stories
Empowering Indigenous youth one dance step at a time
National charity uses the power of dance to inspire Indigenous youth and boost high school graduation rates.
Putting trust at the centre of economic reconciliation
Canada’s largest Indigenous-led charity helps provide Indigenous students with post-secondary educational bursaries and scholarships.
Bringing Mi’kmaw belongings home to Nova Scotia for future generations
Mi’kmaw artisans play a key role in a multi-year effort to return traditional items from the Smithsonian Institution to a new museum in Debert, N.S.
Redefining leadership through Indigenous identity: How Myan Marcen-Gaudaur is charting Scotiabank’s path to reconciliation
With deep roots in community and a vision for lasting change, Myan Marcen-Gaudaur is reframing what reconciliation looks like inside corporate Canada.
Indigenous-led grassroots movement draws on traditional practices to stand against gender-based violence
The Moose Hide Campaign calls on Canadians to wear a moose hide pins to raise awareness of violence towards women and children.
Perspectives podcast: What is Indigenous economic power? An interview with author and entrepreneur, Carol Anne Hilton
The Indigenomics Institute founder’s latest book explores the duality between the rise of Indigenous power and the experience of Indian Act economics.
Indigenous Procurement
The Bank is committed to economic reconciliation and looks for opportunities to work with Indigenous-owned businesses that can help contribute to economic prosperity and community growth.
If you would like to be added to our Indigenous Supplier Database please contact us at: Indigenous Supplier Support.
Additional Resources
Contact us
Indigenous talent recruitment sites
Indigenous Peoples Talent Program
SOAR: New Graduate Experience for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples
Indigenous financial services (business)
Indigenous community partnerships
SCOTIABANK INDIGENOUS NETWORK EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUP LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We are privileged to stand on the ancestral and unceded territory of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. We offer our gratitude to the First Peoples for their care for, and teachings about, our earth and our relations. We acknowledge the effect of residential schools and colonialism on Indigenous families and Communities. Considering this history, we dedicate ourselves to moving forward in the spirit of partnership, collaboration and reconciliation. Stewardship with Indigenous Peoples, Cultures and Communities is all of our responsibility. We reflect on the actions and the steps that must be made towards the advancement of Truth and Reconciliation.
This Land Acknowledgement applies to the land on which Scotiabank has its executive offices (Toronto, Canada) as well as Canadian operations, and does not necessarily represent the historical context and personal experiences of Indigenous Peoples across our global operations.