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Interim president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, Dawn Harvard, alleged that the small amount of time devoted to a list of speakers and a packed agenda at the national roundtable on missing and murdered indigenous women on Friday should not be an obstacle. In fact, she pointed out that “it only takes a few seconds to say, ‘Yes, we will commit X amount of dollars,” adding that she is hopeful of a strong commitment from provincial and federal government representatives attending the meeting.
In her remarks, Harvard alleged that “I think everybody is coming with the consensus idea that something needs to be done, so I think this is really about what is going to be done . . . . This is a big enough crisis and a complex enough crisis that there is plenty of work to be done by all in order to have any significant impact in this area.” She stressed that a report by the RCMP has highlighted that almost 1,200 aboriginal women and girls have been murdered or gone missing in Canada in the past three decades.
Whereas on the other hand, a report released by The Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women, i.e. a group of organizations including Amnesty International, on Thursday, pointed out that the federal government has ignored most of the more than 700 recommendations contained in 58 reports on violence against aboriginal women and girls. Consequently, the report has raised concerns about whether any agreements made at the roundtable will come to life.
I am Canadian. I will not tolerate a country who’s indigenous peoples are less valued, than their European occupiers.