Gerald and Maas 2019 suppressed news // #Canada #FirstNations

5.6.19

Gerald and Maas 2019 suppressed news

http://www.nightslantern.ca/2019bulletin.htm#jun2

June 2, 2019


Canada: while the Conservative Party under Stephen Harper refused to investigate evidence of the disproportionate disappearances of Indigenous women (previous), in 2016 Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau established a National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, which delivers its report to the Prime Minister today. It's not suppressed news - the CBC and other news sources with advance copies have reported some results; concerned people are hoping these will encourage Canada to address evidence of genocide. "Reclaiming Power and Place" states in its summary: "Genocide is the sum of the social practices, assumptions and actions detailed within this report.” It may be relevant that the composition of the independent committee was affected by resignations of leading members; as the Inquiry collected evidence some felt its input was sanitized; the committee is said to have cost 92 million dollars; the Inquiry is to issue an additional report specifically about the Canadian genocide of Aboriginal peoples (CBC). Within a perspective of concern for the Convention on Genocide, and as noted (below) in the Canadian Museum of Human Rights labeling of Canada's history, the decision of whether a genocide has occurred or not, to have legal effect, is usually left to the courts. Unless the courts are recognized as entirely corrupt. As I understand it, others can state our opinions, accusations or assessments of a situation as "genocide," but for the term to invoke the force of law requires more than the opinion of a non law-making source. The word is in a sense a verdict, rendered by the courts and if the courts are not doing their job, then by the people. Night's Lantern made its first genocide warning for Aboriginal peoples of Canada on Nov. 5, 2005, after the UN Committee on Human Rights in Canada report of Nov. 2, 2005.
Background: "On Missing Aboriginal Women," J.B.Gerald, Aug. 27, 2013 nightslantern.ca;   "Why the Genocides Continue," J.B.Gerald, Dec. 2, 2014, nightslantern.ca;  "Canada: why aren’t conditions of life for First Peoples a national emergency?" J.B. Gerald, March 28, 2016, nightslantern.ca;   "Genocide Denial in Canada," J.B.Gerald, Oct. 26, 2016, nightslantern.ca.