2014 Gerald and Maas Suppressed News: #Canada

26.4.14

2014 Gerald and Maas Suppressed News - Canada: for the second time a Parliamentary committee of the Harper government has refused to call for a national inquiry into the disappearances and murders of aboriginal women, despite the insistence of Indigenous leaders, women's groups, human rights groups, native communities. The Parliamentary report fails to counter the basic terrorization of native people and the additional threat of genocide in targeting a community's women of child bearing age. Previous. On March 19 Mohawk people staged another interruption of rail service between Montreal and Toronto in protest. The demand for a nonpartisan national inquiry will not go away. Partial sources online: "Invisible Women: a Call to Action," Report of the Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women, March 2014, 41st Parliament, Second Session; "No national inquiry into missing, murdered Aboriginal woman," Stephanie Wesley, March 19, 2014, Wawatay WRN; "Via Rail blockade by First Nations that halted Montreal-Toronto trains ends," March 19, 2014, CBC News; "Pressure mounts for national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women," Chris Plecash, March 17, 2014, Hill Times.