Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund – Indigenous Grants

The CMIF Indigenous Grants may cover up to 100% of eligible expenses needed to complete an initiative. Eligible expenses include:

• salaries and benefits for employees’ time spent on the initiative
• costs for training, including wages, stipends, or other forms of financial transfers to non-salaried trainees and students, and fees paid to trainers and training organization
• honoraria, ceremonial costs and hospitality costs (including cultural gifts and prizes) for community engagement events and meetings
• rental of facilities, transportation and equipment
• travel costs, including meals and accommodation, based on National Joint Council rates
• professional, legal and contracting services
• communications and media services
• translation, editing, publication and printing
• laboratory, scientific, field, and personal safety equipment and supplies
• overhead expenditures, such as office operating expenses, to a maximum of 15% of total eligible expenditures, provided they are directly related to the initiative
• provincial sales tax, Goods and Services Tax, and harmonized sales tax costs, net of any tax rebate to which the recipient is entitled

Ineligible expenses include capital expenditures, costs for construction, lost income, renovation of buildings, and legal fees related to litigation or similar legal actions. The CMIF Indigenous Grants will not cover these costs.