The article in the OP mentions various actions being taken which could no doubt use support.Well this is horrendous to read. Rather than make some comment about the Canadian's proclivity towards superiority complexes here, I'll ask- what can we do to help right this?
The study the Senator wants to start would be helpful in uncovering how widespread and who else may be involved. This will take time and a consistent government focus.Amnesty International Canada also plans to raise awareness at the UN torture committee. It's also calling on the federal government to appoint a special representative to hear from Indigenous women coerced into sterilization procedures — to learn what justice would look like for them.
In its submission to the committee, Lombard's firm calls out provincial and federal authorities for not investigating and punishing those responsible for the practice despite having received "numerous reports of numerous cases of forced sterilization."
It also outlines specific steps to combat the practice, including criminalizing forced sterilization through the Criminal Code and having Health Canada issue guidance to health professionals regarding sterilization procedures.
New research shows the forced sterilization of Indigenous women is not just a shameful part of Canadian history. Reports from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and the territories suggest it is still happening.
North America is so hypocrite. Look at all Latin America and how many indigenous or mixed race people you find, then check North America. But the problem is Columbus, fuck Columbus, they say.
Yeah the senator taking it up and the lawsuit are heartening. Hope this is able to change things.The article in the OP mentions various actions being taken which could no doubt use support.
This one by Amnesty International may be helpful in bringing justice and stopping those that are guilty of coercion and performing these sterilizations.
The study the Senator wants to start would be helpful in uncovering how widespread and who else may be involved. This will take time and a consistent government focus.
Amazing. I was reading this thread and recalled some dude with an inferiority complex toward Canada frequenting such threads might might show up and..... well, hello! I can only hope our apparent superiority complex dovetails with your inferiority complex and we all experience complete harmony.Well this is horrendous to read. Rather than make some comment about the Canadian's proclivity towards superiority complexes here, I'll ask- what can we do to help right this?
Are treated. Are.It's disgusting and deplorable how Indigenous children, women, etc. were treated in this country in the past. Sickening to think about.
You must be thinking of someone else. I love Canada and think it's superior to the US in almost every way that actually matters to the average citizen. What I don't love is the few small minded posters on here that have zero ability or interest in having rational conversations about Canada or Canadian US relations.Amazing. I was reading this thread and recalled some dude with an inferiority complex toward Canada frequenting such threads might might show up and..... well, hello! I can only hope our apparent superiority complex dovetails with your inferiority complex and we all experience complete harmony.
I started a new job a few months ago where I work directly and indirectly with First Nations in BC. Virtually every new provincial policy now has indigenous people at the forefront (particularly w/r/t rural communities, working with the FNHA, etc) and every government employee gets hours of training related to indigenous people. That said, despite high-level and ground-level efforts, the cycle of poverty and abuse in rural communities is still so prevalent and will take generations to break. Inclusion is what is most important, but the communities where most indigenous people live are highly segregated along class lines, not to mention ethnic.
Institutional discrimination can be removed and government can be rehabilitated, but the roots in the communities are hard to repair. BC isn't specified in this article, but it still suffers from the exact same legacy as other provinces.
I'm curious if/how the Senator has approached the federal government with this (ie, incidences of forced sterilization). There needs to be a full investigation and I'm not sure how the government could justify any other response. Truth & Reconciliation is made so hollow without consistent action on every front.
Hate is irrelevant when there is something to gain from their lands.Canada, the US, Australia.
White people really do hate indigenous people that much, huh.
Without being given any concrete examples, I'd have to imagine the issue here is lack of completely informed consent rather than "forced" sterilizations. This topic is probably substantially more nuanced than the reactions here make it out to be. But again, we don't have any concrete examples.
Boyer now wants the Senate to study the scope of the issue nationally, making it the focus of her first address to the upper chamber.
What does this photoshop have to do with the issue?
The sad truth is that almost no one gives a shit about indigenous people in Canada.The bigger question is why is this only 4 pages? Why is this not one of those massive race related threads. Are these people not good enough to fall on people's radar here? They were here before all of us. It's like a damn silent agreement to sweep them under the rug.
Anywhere, not just Canada.Absolutely disgusting.
The sad truth is that almost no one gives a shit about indigenous people in Canada.
Through this photo titled "Home and Native Land" Charla Sylvester wants to bring attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women and open up the discussion on issues facing Indigenous people in Canada.
That's unfortunately the truth. Often the only support many publicly display for indigenous people is really only for themselves and their interests. They use indigenous people and their issues to attack their political opponents. The truth of who is helping indigenous people often getting buried in the lies and appeals to emotion.Often bringing up tangential issues to distract from the one at hand.The sad truth is that almost no one gives a shit about indigenous people in Canada.
I dunno honestly. I'm not saying there's somebody better who could take his place, I'm saying it would just be nice if we had somebody better.
In Mexico this also happens, specially in rural areas. Honestly, all of the America continent should be ashamed of the treatment of indigenous people.
Gloriousss post.Despicable. I see a lot of Canadian users here (well, I assume that's what they are), complaining that people bring up the Indigineous stuff to "smear" Canada, but honestly, reading this story, Canada deserves people flinging shit on them for this. How can an otherwise liberal society ignore this Nazi bullshit?
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard concerns about coerced sterilization of Indigenous women during its years-long examination of Canada's residential school legacy, Sen. Murray Sinclair said Thursday as he joined a chorus of calls for a national investigation on the issue.
Sinclair, who chaired the commission, said cases brought to his commission's attention generally involved women who were under the supervision of a child-welfare case worker or a social worker from a child welfare agency.
As chairman of the TRC, Sinclair spent six years documenting Canada's residential school legacy — a government-funded, church-operated assimilation program from the 1870s to 1996 — and issued 94 recommendations, including several involving child-welfare reform.
"It (coerced sterilization) was in fact an issue in Saskatchewan that had been raised with us," Sinclair, who was appointed to the Senate in 2016, told The Canadian Press on Thursday.
"We suggested that there needed to be an evaluation of the child welfare system's involvement in this."
Sinclair now joins a growing list of people and groups, including Sen. Yvonne Boyer, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde and Amnesty International Canada, who are concerned about allegations that Indigenous women were pressured into tubal ligations.
I'm conflicted about the pipelines. On the one hand I am generally against the idea but at the same time it's becoming a critical matter for us to become independent from corrupt and authoritarian regimes like Saudi Arabia and the US.
It''s disgusting that you think it is appropriate to use this tragedy as a platform to voice this petty personal issue.North Americans of European descent have no chill. Y'all won, chill the fuck out.
And with the whole missing women thing, the implication is non-natives are going rape and kidnap happy right? Disgusting, same people on their moral high horse about how good their governments are.
It's good to see Sinclair is adding his voice. He`s another Senate nominee by Trudeau.
Platform for what? US and Canada are constantly chastising countries overseas as being backwards. Violence against non-white ethnic groups gets swept under the rug 24/7. How y'all treat the lowest of the low is the real you, miss me with the performative wokeness.It''s disgusting that you think it is appropriate to use this tragedy as a platform to voice this petty personal issue.
It`s basic human rights and body autonomy against medical justifications. Sinclair's statement seems to imply that he trusted(at the time) the reports he'd seen from social workers overseeing some of these sterilizations that crossed his desk. It may mean those cases met the thresholds of law at the time. However, he did think there should be an evaluation then. That he is pushing for the investigation now is significant. If their is any indication of abuse of the system due to suspicious activity an investigation should be started quickly.I can't understand how this kind of thing can continue on so long. It seems so easy to fix: you just stop force-sterilizing women. This isn't like climate change or brexit ffs.