The reception afforded the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report into the residential school system four years ago was very different to that which this week greeted the final report of the National Inquiry Into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
But the spirit of compromise and mutual accommodation was entirely absent from the MMIW report. “We are investigating a past wrong but one that is ongoing and getting worse,” the report said, as it lamented acts of violence stemming from “colonialism and coupled with racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia.” Marion Buller, the inquiry’s chief commissioner, said there is an ongoing “deliberate, race, identity and gender-based genocide.
The report says women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people are being targeted “from all sides” by partners, family members, acquaintances and serial killers, but it does not delve any deeper to qualify or quantify that statement. In addition, the report suggested Indigenous women were three times as likely than non-Indigenous women to report being a victim of spousal violence.
Not always, but most often. There are mitigating circumstances — crimes are committed by people for whom violence has become normalized, often because they themselves were victimized in childhood. The residential schools system’s legacy is with us still, affecting generations of Indigenous people and their children.
“But the allegations of genocide are extreme, and they invite an equally excessive response from those with no interest in building a healthy relationship.”
Seems to be an extension of the Trudeau Liberal Cult's politics of Fear, Division and Hate.
DavidStaplesYEG What a joke this country has become.
1182 women dead over 32 years and 70% of murders were committed by Aboriginal men. How is this genocide? There is a definite need for justice but who are we blaming for this again?
The creation of a panel of independent experts is a great idea but its objective should be to investigate whether Buller and Trudeau should be charged for stealing $92 million in public funds to produce this useless piece of crap.
A $92M inquiry that fails to investigate the perpetrators of the crimes and arrives at a patently false conclusion of ongoing “genocide.” Because it’s 2019 in Liberal Canada.
The inquiry didnt WANT to know who was doing the killing.
The only thing the inflammatory language is going to accomplish, much like JustinTrudeau ‘s rants about rampant white supremacy and bigotry, is it’s going to foster greater feelings of division. While what has happened to so may indigenous women and girls is appalling,...
My sense is that the commissioners had these viewpoints before the inquiry ever started, all the interviews and the $92 million that was spent was just theater
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