By Shari Narine  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Indigenous communities looking to advance infrastructure projects now have access to a new pool of money. The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) has provided the First Nations Bank of Canada (FNBC) with $100 million to offer as capital for smaller infrastructure projects. FNBC will be matching that amount. The money will be loaned to First Nations Bank’s clients at a low interest rate as it blends FNBC’s competitive market rate with CIB’s low-cost financing. The partnership, says CIB CEO Ehren Cory, allows CIB to be involved in projects that aren’t the bank’s usual billion-dollar infrastructure dealings. “FNBC has reached to communities big and small, First Nations communities, Metis and **>Inuit<** communities across the country in a way that we don’t,” said Cory. “They have

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