GATINEAU, Quebec — Indigenous people from across Canada cheered, and raised fists and eagle feathers, as the leader of a national inquiry into widespread violence against Indigenous women and girls announced on Monday the inquiry’s finding, equating that violence with genocide and holding Canada itself responsible.
“This is genocide,” said Marion Buller, the chief commissioner of the inquiry and a retired Indigenous judge, at a ceremony for the official release of the inquiry’s findings.
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She added, “An absolute paradigm shift is required to dismantle colonialism in Canadian society.”
That powerful rebuke of violence against one of the country’s most vulnerable minorities, as well as of Canadian society, comes after a nearly three-year inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls, during which more than 1,500 families of victims and survivors testified at hearings across the country.
Also speaking at the ceremony, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said, “To the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls of Canada, to their families, and to survivors — we have failed you.”
Source: Canadian Inquiry Calls Killings of Indigenous Women Genocide
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