Part IThe Evolution of the ABS Policy Landscape in Canada

1. 1The ABS Canada Initiative: Scoping and Gauging Indigenous Responses to ABS

   Chidi Oguamanam

2. 2Canada and the Nagoya Protocol: Towards Implementation, In Support of Reconciliation

   Timothy J. Hodges and Jock R. Langford

3. 3Aboriginal Partnership, Capacity Building and Capacity Development on ABS: The Maritime Aboriginal Peoples Council (MAPC) and ABS Canada Experience

   Chidi Oguamanam and Roger Hunka

Part IIHurdles to ABS: Conceptual Questions, Practical Responses and Paths Forward

1. 4Unsettling Canada’s Colonial Constitution: A Response to the Question of Domestic Law and the Creation of an Access and Benefit-Sharing Regime

   Joshua Nichols

2. 5Making Room for the Nagoya Protocol in Nunavut

   Daniel W. Dylan

3. 6Implications of the Evolution of Canada’s Three Orders of Government for ABS Implementation

   Frédéric Perron-Welch and Chidi Oguamanam

4. 7Biopiracy Flashpoints and Increasing Tensions over ABS in Canada

   Chidi Oguamanam and Christopher Koziol

5. 8Applying Dene Law to Genetic Resources Access and Knowledge Issues

   Larry Chartrand

6. 9Access and Benefit-Sharing in Canada: Glimpses from the National Experiences of Brazil, Namibia and Australia to Inform Indigenous-Sensitive Policy

   Freedom-Kai Phillips

Part IIINew Technological Dynamics and Research Ethics: Implications for ABS Governance

1. 10Access and Benefit-Sharing in the Age of Digital Biology

   Peter W. B. Phillips, Stuart J. Smyth and Jeremy de Beer

2. 11ABS: Big Data, Data Sovereignty and Digitization: A New Indigenous Research Landscape

   Chidi Oguamanam

3. 12Ethical Guidance for Access and Benefit-Sharing: Implications for Reconciliation

   Kelly Bannister

4. 13Mapping the Patterns of Underestimated Researcher-Indigenous Collaboration: Towards Independent Implementation of ABS Principles

   Thomas Burelli

5. 14ABS, Reconciliation and Opportunity

   Chidi Oguamanam