For a long time, Wayne Garnons-Williams, Law카지노 게임 컬렉션90, was one of the few people studying the new field of international Indigenous trade law. Ten years ago, many Indigenous Peoples 카지노 게임 컬렉션 including Indigenous business and political leaders 카지노 게임 컬렉션 were fighting for rudimentary recognition of the basic rights to clean drinking water and drawing attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women.
카지노 게임 컬렉션When I referenced Indigenous trade to local, regional, and national Indigenous representatives, they would look at me like I had come from another planet카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Garnons-Williams, who is a member of the Moosomin First Nation in카지노 게임 컬렉션Saskatchewan.
So why is Indigenous economic sovereignty important?
Because being able to conduct inter-tribal trade of goods across what are now international borders is a historic right that existed, and continues to exist, long before the relatively recent arrival, in Indigenous terms, of Nation-States such as Canada and the U.S. Many Indigenous/Crown Treaties had enshrined trade and commerce provisions, such as the , but these provisions were neglected over the years due to the imposition of the Indian Act.
Garnons-Williams feels that inter-tribal trade is key to Indigenous economic sovereignty and that it empowers Indigenous communities to create conditions favourable for businesses to develop good local jobs within the Indigenous communities.
카지노 게임 컬렉션This is helping Indigenous nations keep businesses in their traditional territories and helping small mom-and-pop organizations sell their products around the world,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Garnons-Williams says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션That helps with regional prosperity. If local Indigenous businesses can create local jobs within Indigenous communities, it starts prosperity and creates entrepreneurial dignity and economic self-sufficiency within the community.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Garnons-Williams, who is senior lawyer at Garwill Law PC and principal director at Indigenous Sovereign Trade Consultancy Ltd. (both located in Ottawa) is an advocate for many Indigenous issues. He카지노 게임 컬렉션s also the chair of the , and a lecturer in Indigenous Entrepreneurship at the 카지노게임사이트 of Waterloo.
But he is most passionate about trade. It was his work as chair of the (IITIO) that caught the attention of the federal government.
When then-President Donald Trump announced he wanted to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Canadian government asked the public for feedback. Garnons-Williams and his IITIO colleagues submitted a paper impressing on the government the urgency of exercising their fiduciary obligations to Indigenous Peoples by developing an Indigenous trade policy that upholds Aboriginal and treaty rights of inter-tribal trade.
To his surprise, Chrystia Freeland, then Canadian foreign affairs minister, asked Garnons-Williams for help to build Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션s Indigenous trade policies for the NAFTA renegotiations.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Tribal nations are starting to now be in a position to exercise their inherent economic rights of inter-tribal trade to access new markets, in turn raising their own standard of living through their own entrepreneurial capacities,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Garnons-Williams says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션These new trade policies can reestablish old trade relations and develop new ones around the world.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Garnons-Williams' diligent work in contributing to the development of the Government of Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션s Indigenous Trade Policy helped secure various Indigenous provisions in USMCA (United States, Mexico, Canada Agreement), and in the (which involves several South American countries). Garnons-Williams was the lead Canadian Indigenous negotiator for IPETCA (Indigenous Peoples Economic Trade and Cooperation Arrangement). Canada /United Kingdom negotiations, including Canada's position that there should be an Indigenous Chapter, are currently underway.
His life's work has been built on the theme of making the world more inclusive for those who were once excluded, which is the reason he is receiving the Agnes Benidickson Award, the highest tribute given by the Ottawa Alumni Branch. It is presented to an individual for distinguished service to Queen's and Canada.
Garnons-Williams says he is honoured to be receiving the award because he strongly believes in giving back and helping others.
카지노 게임 컬렉션In Indigenous teachings, you카지노 게임 컬렉션re only temporarily passing through this world, so you try to give more than you take so that you leave the world a better place for future generations,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Garnons-Williams says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I really believe in that.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Alumni in the Ottawa area are invited to help honour Garnons-Williams on May 17 at the Agnes Benidickson Award celebration. Please RSVP online by May 12.
