Today our guest is social entre­pre­neur Shaun Loney. Shaun is the Direc­tor and co-founder of AKI Ener­gy, he wrote a fas­ci­nat­ing book on FNMI social enter­pris­ing ini­tia­tives — An Army of Prob­lem Solvers: Rec­on­cil­i­a­tion and The Solu­tions Econ­o­my. The book is a tell-all about Shaun’s social enter­pris­ing projects with FNMI com­mu­ni­ties in Man­i­to­ba and the bar­ri­ers hold­ing back capac­i­ty build­ing ini­tia­tives and alter­na­tive ener­gy projects. We talk about gov­ern­men­tal block­ages, sys­temic issues, and the need for a par­a­digm shift in the pol­i­cy and leg­is­la­tion around sup­port­ing non-prof­its in a resource extrac­tion econ­o­my. AKI Ener­gy is head­quar­tered in Win­nipeg’s North End where Shaun is work­ing to pro­mote employ­ment, edu­ca­tion, and devel­op­ment through rec­on­cil­i­a­tion and the economy.