Wild killings perpetrated by family members, foreigners, serial killers … After hearing close to 2,000 relatives of victims, the Commission in charge of this report considered that they had been confronted with a level of endemic violence. , corollary of "Actions and inactions of the state that have their roots in colonialism and related ideologies, based on a presumption of superiority".
According to official estimates, about 1,200 Aboriginal women were reportedly killed or missing in Canada between 1980 and 2012. This figure is likely to be well below the actual number of victims. By listing 231 security, justice, health or cultural recommendations, the report calls for further reforms to improve the lives of 1.6 million Aboriginal people – 4% of the Canadian population -, Inuit and Métis.
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"Inescapable conclusion"
"All killings and disappearances have in common the economic, social and political marginalization, racism and misogyny that are an integral part of the Canadian social fabric", said Chief Commissioner Marion Buller, when the document was presented in the presence of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, near Ottawa.
Employed 122 times in the report, the term 'Genocide' has left the flank to criticism. While the Prime Minister ended up giving it timidly and belatedly, the head of the Quebec government François Legault felt that the facts – of course "Very serious" – did not sufficiently reflect its international or legal definitions. "It was an inescapable conclusion"answered Marion Buller, "The kind of genocide we face in Canada is death by a million small injuries, over generations".
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