Wayne Garnons-Williams 
Indigenous Traditional Knowledge By Wayne D. Garnons-Williams, Chair, IITIO To provide some contrast and perspective to Indigenous “traditional knowledge” in comparison to Intellectual property (hereinafter referred to as “IP”) it is first important to provide some basic definitions of various IP aspects: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks Patents In the seminal textbook by Kintner & Lahr …
Submission by the International Inter-Tribal Trade and Investment Organization to the Government of Canada for the Renegotiation and Modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement No relationship is more important to Canada than the relationship with Indigenous Peoples. Our Government is working together with Indigenous Peoples to build a nation-to-nation, Inuit-Crown, government‑to‑government relationship …
Read moreNAFTA Submission to Global Affairs Canada from IITIO
On April 22, 2016 as President of the International Inter-tribal Trade and Investment Organization (www.IITIO.org) I had the honour of giving the opening address to the inaugural International Inter-tribal Trade and Investment Conference in the Bell Court Room at the College of Law, University of Oklahoma. IITIO has the mandate to: “To support and …
Replacing the Adversarial Ideology: Indigenous Reconciliation through Incentives By Wayne Garnons-Williams True Indigenous reconciliation can finally start, now that federal government decision makers have real incentives for effecting change and a framework to allow for that change happen. On December 8-10, 2015, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) held its annual gathering of …
Specific Claims Tribunal Act Five Year Review Submissions of Wayne Garnons-Williams, Senior Lawyer and Principal Director, Garwill Law Professional Corporation & Gordon Lafortune, Managing Partner, Woods Lafortune, LLP April 13, 2015 These submissions are made in response to the Request for Views to be considered as part of the Five-Year Review of the Specific Claims …