ISTC can advise and represent your interests on matters pertaining to Indigenous Trade policy, regulation of Indigenous Trade, Indigenous Trade governance, Indigenous Trade administration, Indigenous Trade project management, Indigenous Trade logistics and Indigenous Trade negotiation.
Guidance on Policy & Regulation
Consultation with Canadian and American-owned Indigenous majority companies to discuss the possibility of locating factories or distribution facilities in a Foreign Trade Zone located on Indigenous sovereign territories.
Guidance on Governance & Administration
Senior Lawyer and Principal Director of Garwill Law Professional Corp., offering litigation, alternative dispute resolution and corporate commercial services with expertise in Aboriginal law, trade law and human rights. I am a champion of inherent Indigenous economic rights and write analytical research papers on various aspects of Global Indigenous Trade. I sit as tribunal judge on Indigenous issues both economic and political.
Project Management & Logistics
—Submissions to Parliamentary Standing Committee on Trade
As Chair of IITIO, I was invited to make submissions regarding its Indigenous Chapter within NAFTA to the Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Trade on behalf of IITIO on Sept. 18, 2017 (CIIT Meeting No. 75). In its final report, the committee supported my submissions and officially recommended and favorably supported an Indigenous Chapter in a revised NAFTA (CIIT COMMITTEE REPORT).
—Collaboration with Minister of Foreign Affairs
On October 6, 2017, as Chair of IITIO, I was invited to a NAFTA –Intellectual Property “think tank” session chaired by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland. At this session, IITIOʼs analysis of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and IP was favorably accepted by Minister Freeland: Meeting with Minister for Global Affairs & Trade
—Submissions to Senate Standing Committee on Trade
On June 14, 2018 I appeared before and gave submissions to the Canadian Senate Committee on Trade, Banking and Commerce to present on the subject of emerging trade issues, in particular international Indigenous trade: IITIO Presents at Senate Committee on Trade, Banking and Commerce.
Negotiations
Along with other executive members of IITIO, I have contributed to the development of the Indigenous Trade Chapter, which is part of Canadaʼs larger “Inclusive Trade Agenda”. During the time period when the US administration decided to renegotiate NAFTA, it was IITIO that was the only organization out of 2500 submissions that argued logically out of sound law and policy for an Indigenous Trade Chapter. IITIOʼs July 2017 submission the Minister of Trade on a reopened NAFTA can be found here.