Indigenous activists across the country will mark a day of mourning during peaceful ‘Cancel Canada Day’ marches aimed at shedding light on injustices experienced in their community.
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“We will use our voices for MMIWG2S, child welfare, birth alerts, forced sterilization, police [and] RCMP brutality, and all of the injustices we face.” Many say celebrations including Canada Day, Victoria Day and St-Jean-Baptiste Day are symbols of colonialism.Idle No More Facebook page “There is a huge divide that must be closed, and we can only close that divide… by working together and have kindness and love and respect for each other as human beings,” he said.
Bellegarde is among top Indigenous leaders who have called for systemic change in policing following the deaths of two Indigenous community members at the hands of police last month.“You can’t deny that there is systemic racism and systemic discrimination in all systems, whether it be the health care system, the justice system, the educational system. But in order to deal with it you have to acknowledge that it exists,” Bellegarde said.
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