Building Relationships

Who we are

Building strong relationships with our client communities that are based on trust and respect.

Strategic

We have developed a number of proprietary tools to help you grow and manage your sovereign wealth. These tools give you remote access to reports, appraisals and performance with the goal of improving efficiency, transparency and accountability. EDIP Sovereign Wealth Solutions is the only organization of its kind in Canada to do this.

Professional

EDIP is not a consultant, we are a partner in your success. We help you build and manage your own portfolio of private equity, real estate, infrastructure and other commercial assets. We help you to move to ec dev 2.0 – running your own sovereign wealth engine that makes you less reliant on the Crown and better able to control your own destiny.

TRUSTED

Working with some of Canada’s most respected indigenous leaders and Elders, EDIP provides indigenous communities with access to the experts and tools they need to grow a steady stream of tax-efficient own source revenues needed to fund community priorities, like housing, health, education, elders and youth.

Leadership

Our Senior Leadership Team

Howard Morry Read Bio

Phil Fontaine Read Bio

Proven Success

Shared Services Center

We recognize the strategic value of having a Shared Services Organization as it reduces the cost base across the EDIP Group of Companies, and it improves controls and enhanced client service levels.

Shared services is the consolidation of business operations that are used by multiple parts of EDIP. Our Senior Management Team is responsible for setting our overall direction, leading staff, coordinating resources and approving corporate policies and procedures.

Advisory Board

Our approach is informed by our advisory board consisting of First Nation leaders and Elders

EDIP Sovereign Wealth Solutions

Get In Touch

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Head Office

18th Floor -201 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3B 3K6

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Western Canada

200 – 100 Park Royal
West Vancouver, BC V7T 1A2

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Contact Us

+1 800 469 6895
info@edip.co

Howard Morry

Founder and Chairman of the Board, Howard Morry is also a partner with the law firm Pitblado Law, and is one of Canada’s most respected lawyers, ranking “AV”, the highest rating in legal ability and ethical standards by Lexis Nexis Martindale-Hubbell. Howard was a Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation and the President of the Canadian Association of Estate Planning Councils. He was also the President of the Estate Planning Council of Winnipeg, the Chair of the Manitoba Bar Association’s Tax Section and the course head for the Bar Admission Course in Taxation. Howard has published a number of papers on wealth planning and taxation and has been a contributor to numerous financial and tax journals. He has also chaired national conferences for the Globe and Mail, the National Post and others. Howard has been recognized for his volunteer efforts, and is a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Award. The Asper School of Business (where he graduated with a major in Finance) named him “honourary president” and holds an annual “leadership conference” in his name.

Howard was the Manitoba Chair of the Capital Campaign for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. He was also the co-founder of the Canadian Association of Farm Advisors and the Arab Jewish Dialogue. Howard is proud to have played a key role for the past three decades in promoting the full participation of aboriginal peoples in the Canadian economy having obtained the first income tax rulings in Canada for First Nations business and investment structures. Howard wrote the first peer-reviewed journal articles in Canada on First Nations taxation and he chaired the first aboriginal Tax and Finance conferences in Canada. Howard has been qualified in Ontario courts as an expert witness on First Nations economic development and investment structures. Howard has been on the Board of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business for almost a quarter of a century. Howard is the founder of EDIP Sovereign Wealth Solutions, a network of service providers dedicated to assisting First Nations achieve financial independence. Howard is widely recognized as a writer and speaker on taxation, estate planning, and business structuring.

Phil Fontaine

Mr. Phil Fontaine is Chair of the EDIP Advisory Board of First Nation Leaders and Elders. He was born at the Sagkeeng First Nation (formerly known as Fort Alexander) in Manitoba, about 150 kilometers north of Winnipeg. His first language is Ojibway. In his youth he attended a residential school operated by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Sagkeeng. He also attended the Assiniboia Residential School in Winnipeg and he graduated from Powerview Collegiate in 1961. In 1973, Mr. Fontaine was elected Chief of the Sagkeeng First Nation for two consecutive terms. Upon completion of his mandate, he and his family moved to the Yukon, where he was a Regional Director General with the Federal government. In 1981 Mr. Fontaine graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. After graduation, he worked for the Southeast Resource Development Council as a Special Advisor, which was followed by his election to the position of Manitoba’s Vice-Chief for the Assembly of First Nations. Mr. Fontaine was one of the Manitoba First Nation leaders instrumental in the defeat of the Meech Lake Accord. In 1991, he was elected Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and served for an unprecedented three consecutive terms. In 1997, he was elected National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. After one term as National Chief, he was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Indian Claims Commission. Mr. Fontaine returned to the Assembly of the First Nations as National Chief, for two more terms, in 2003 and held the post until 2009.

Among his many accomplishments as the longest serving National Chief, he will be most remembered for successfully negotiating the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, which included financial settlements for survivors and the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Since September 1, 2009, Mr. Fontaine serves as a Special Advisor to the Royal Bank of Canada. His mandate is to “provide advice and counsel to RBC’s Canadian businesses to help the company deepen its relationships with Aboriginal governments, communities and businesses in Canada”. Mr. Fontaine is owner and President of Ishkonigan Inc., a successful consulting company he founded in 2009 specializing in Aboriginal relations, negotiations, government relations, mediation and advisory services. The national company has offices from Saskatchewan to New Brunswick, and employs over 20 specialized Aboriginal professionals with a diverse and growing client base. He is a Member of Order of Manitoba and has received a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, the Equitas Human Rights Education Award, the Distinguished Leadership Award from the University of Ottawa, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and most recently was appointed to the Order of Canada. Mr. Fontaine also holds sixteen Honorary Doctorates from Canada and the United States.