Interim Treaty Investment Authority?

Author and policy entrepreneur, Gordon Gibson with the Gitxsan Treaty Society says the process will take time to conclude treaties but has a solution for the meantime,

That solution could be the creation of an Interim Treaty Investment Authority (ITIA), initially funded by say $1 billion. The purpose of the authority would be to grant loans — not gifts — to first nations for approved projects. For approval, a project would have to be demonstrably feasible to a third-party, independent board of business people.

Gibson says more money for investment and jobs is the solution. It begs this question: wouldn't that $1 billion help close a lot of Final Agreements now? The whole story behind the ITIA is here.