According to a new forecast from the Royal Bank of Canada, the number of Indigenous business owners is growing at five times the rate of self-employed Canadians. It’s a $30-billion economy now according to RBC and forecast to triple to $100-billion by 2025.

What sort of businesses are in? All of them – from retail to real estate. Several Indigenous entrepreneurs who took the plunge into the business world join InFocus to share their success stories.