‘Still ongoing’: Montreal rally raises awareness about crisis affecting Indigenous communities | 24CA News
A rally was held in Montreal Tuesday night to honour the lives of lacking and murdered Indigenous girls and women throughout Canada.
Supporters gathered within the metropolis’s Cabot Square at 6 p.m. the place visitor audio system and performers addressed the crowds earlier than setting out on a march alongside Ste-Catherine Street.
Among them was Cheryl McDonald, a Mohawk from Kanesatake, whose sister Carleen Marie McDonald is among the many lacking.
She disappeared from her mother and father’ residence in Akwesasne on Sept. 4, 1988. Her physique was discovered two kilometres away within the woods virtually two months later.
McDonald mentioned police on the time did little to assist.
“They don’t have time to look for Indigenous women,” she mentioned.” Oh, she drinks, oh she takes off. And they brush their fingers and so do our leaders.”
Supporters at a MMIWT2S+ rally in Montreal carry indicators that learn” Stolen land, stolen sisters.” Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023.
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Macdonald was one among many who testified in Montreal through the National Inquiry into
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
The report concluded that human rights violations are the foundation trigger behind the staggering charges of violence in opposition to Indigenous girls.
Organizers of Tuesday’s rally mentioned they hope to attract consideration to the continuing disaster.
“People need to know that missing and murdered Indigenous women and Two-Spirit girls is still ongoing,” mentioned Nakuset, govt director of the Montreal Native Women’s Shelter.
She pointed to the deaths of 4 Indigenous girls in Winnipeg and and the way the households of these girls are ready for solutions.
While Nakuset mentioned everybody should take motion to implement options, the burden usually falls on front-line organizations.
Nakuset mentioned she’d just like the federal authorities to do extra, particularly in terms of implementing the 231 Calls to Justice stemming from the National Inquiry’s ultimate report.
“If they were to apply some of these Calls to Justice it would be easier for Indigenous women to just live freely and be protected,” Nakuset mentioned. “I would like to see an action plan as to when they are going to implement it.”
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To date, Nakuset mentioned the federal government has solely put in place one of many actions contained within the report.
“We still have to wait on the 230,” she mentioned.
Marc Miller, the federal MP for Montreal’s Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs driving and the Minister of Crown-Indigenous relations says the federal government is attempting to do higher.
“You look at some of the pieces of legislation that we have put into place as a government, they are the first steps in addressing this.”
— with information from Global News’ Tim Sargeant
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