Report on Indigenous women entrepreneurship in Canada

OTTAWA, Ont.-Recently the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH) and Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) released a report Breaking Barriers: A Decade of Indigenous Women's Entrepreneurship in Canada, which shows that Indigenous women-owned businesses in Canada are growing in terms of revenue and number of employees but continue to face existing and amplified barriers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Historically, there has been a lack of data on Indigenous entrepreneurs, specifically Indigenous women entrepreneurs," said Tabatha Bull, President and CEO, CCAB. "Notably, this first...