Juno News - Is Canada Guilty of Genocide？

00:00:00.000 Did early Canadians really commit genocide?

00:00:02.260 Well, the Prime Minister seems to think so.

00:00:04.200 I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:11.740 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in today.

00:00:14.440 I want to do a little bit of a deep dive today

00:00:16.620 and talk about a word that gets thrown around an awful lot.

00:00:20.480 And as you know, it's become incredibly fashionable

00:00:23.160 to throw around the term genocide.

00:00:25.300 We hear it all the time from politicians on the left.

00:00:28.020 As I said, we accept those findings.

00:00:30.380 We accept the finding that this was genocide.

00:00:32.980 This mass grave is a painful reminder of the genocide.

00:00:38.400 In the buzzword of the day, assimilation.

00:00:42.120 In the language of the 21st century, cultural genocide.

00:00:46.880 We call this genocide.

00:00:49.220 The horrifying revelation of the 215 children

00:00:52.180 found at Kamloops Residential School makes clear

00:00:54.540 Canada has committed genocide against Indigenous peoples.

00:00:58.020 I've said before that the residential schools

00:01:00.100 was a genocide of our people.

00:01:01.600 Canada committed deliberate race, identity, 0.53

00:01:04.200 and gender-based genocide against Indigenous peoples.

00:01:07.060 But is it really true?

00:01:08.560 Did Canada really commit genocide?

00:01:10.820 Not too long ago,

00:01:12.120 the answer from the perspective of international law was no.

00:01:15.960 In fact, it used to be shocking to hear

00:01:17.820 this phrase uttered in the Canadian context.

00:01:20.300 And international scholars and legal experts

00:01:22.260 used to urge caution with such a loaded and political word.

00:01:27.160 Canada's early history is filled with brutality and hardship.

00:01:30.540 There's no doubt about it.

00:01:32.020 The 18th and 19th centuries were defined by wars,

00:01:35.260 atrocity, constant fighting, constant killing,

00:01:38.120 over land and resources.

00:01:39.520 And Canada was no different.

00:01:41.340 But suddenly, all of the context has been stripped away.

00:01:44.800 And we now look at events of the past

00:01:46.400 and judge them as if they were being carried out today,

00:01:49.020 as if they're being carried out right now.

00:01:50.360 And as for the most loaded political term of all,

00:01:54.160 genocide, it gets thrown around now,

00:01:56.700 basically meaning something bad that happened in the past.

00:02:00.240 This latest frenzy all began in Kamloops

00:02:02.600 with the accusation of mass and unmarked graves.

00:02:05.960 While on Thursday, the Kamloops Indian Band

00:02:08.080 finally presented its research on the 215 unmarked graves

00:02:12.000 announced earlier this spring.

00:02:13.840 The presentation was pretty unremarkable,

00:02:16.140 at least from a media perspective.

00:02:17.200 It was filled with all the ceremonial elements

00:02:19.660 that you would expect

00:02:20.360 and lots of excessive political statements

00:02:22.920 in Orwellian language

00:02:23.900 that was frankly a little bit surprising.

00:02:26.880 We heard from three scientists,

00:02:28.540 each of whom emphasized emotion over facts

00:02:31.460 and politics over science,

00:02:33.620 using the podium to virtue signal

00:02:35.160 about the need for more apologies,

00:02:37.160 more shame, more contrition from Canadians 1.00

00:02:39.400 and more money to first nations.

00:02:41.880 And as for the research that led to discovery,

00:02:44.360 my suspicions were more or less confirmed.

00:02:46.320 The radar technology is not very accurate

00:02:48.740 and not very precise.

00:02:50.480 In fact, we learned that the 215 figure

00:02:52.660 that has been repeated millions of times

00:02:54.620 around the world is not accurate.

00:02:57.080 The real number is more like 200.

00:02:59.300 I say more like 200 because the number itself is an estimate.

00:03:03.240 It's not an exact science.

00:03:04.660 It's based on the number of disturbances

00:03:06.780 detected in the ground.

00:03:09.060 This is what the technology detects.

00:03:11.580 And as you can see,

00:03:12.480 we're not looking at an x-ray machine

00:03:13.980 that detects bones or human remains.

00:03:16.240 That's sort of what the media implied,

00:03:18.060 but that's certainly not what we saw.

00:03:19.900 It's certainly nothing that could determine

00:03:21.240 whether these graves belong to children or adults,

00:03:25.000 First Nations, or pupils at a school.

00:03:27.120 We're only seeing places where the soil has moved.

00:03:31.020 But these are mere facts,

00:03:32.320 and facts are not as important as narrative.

00:03:34.920 That is why I want to bring to your attention

00:03:36.740 a speech that was given

00:03:38.100 during this media presentation in Kamloops.

00:03:40.380 After the main event was over,

00:03:42.000 so after we heard from the chief,

00:03:43.700 a language specialist,

00:03:44.920 three scientists,

00:03:46.040 and three former students of the school,

00:03:47.960 a politician took the stage.

00:03:49.920 This is Roseanne Archibald,

00:03:51.400 the very recently elected chief

00:03:53.200 of the Assembly of First Nations,

00:03:54.700 the AFN.

00:03:56.240 This is the highest-ranking political position

00:03:58.620 that is always held by a First Nations leader in Canada.

00:04:02.800 So after we learned that the real number

00:04:04.440 of unmarked graves was more like 200 and not 215,

00:04:07.980 Archibald said this.

00:04:10.600 Here in Tishkwetmik territory, 0.90

00:04:15.360 in these sacred lands,

00:04:17.660 Canadians and the world first learned

00:04:21.400 about how 215 innocent children died

00:04:26.640 and were buried in unmarked graves.

00:04:30.220 So just moments after we heard a researcher

00:04:42.560 say that the number of the remains

00:04:43.960 is suspected to be 200

00:04:45.360 and that there is no way to confirm

00:04:47.940 whether these remains are actually there

00:04:50.260 and who they belong to,

00:04:51.780 this politician jumps up

00:04:53.160 and repeats the narrative

00:04:54.400 with no regard for facts,

00:04:55.980 no regard for truth.

00:04:57.080 Without any hint of self-awareness

00:04:59.600 or any regard for being a responsible leader

00:05:02.100 to her community,

00:05:03.500 she goes ahead and pours gasoline on the fire.

00:05:06.700 She's standing on the graves of dead children,

00:05:09.160 children who died more than 100 years ago,

00:05:11.700 possibly even longer,

00:05:13.020 possibly not even children

00:05:14.160 or First Nations children,

00:05:15.800 and she declares that she has proof

00:05:17.700 of crimes against humanity.

00:05:19.600 But it gets worse.

00:05:21.100 This is what she says next.

00:05:22.500 The United Nations has called this genocide.

00:05:27.540 We call this genocide.

00:05:31.240 This ground-penetrating radar technology

00:05:35.080 is revealing evidence,

00:05:38.540 undisputable proof that crimes were committed.

00:05:43.640 Wait, what?

00:05:44.660 She says that the United Nations

00:05:45.920 has called this genocide?

00:05:47.360 But is that even true?

00:05:49.080 Let me be clear.

00:05:49.920 This is an incredible accusation to make.

00:05:51.600 It's a shocking statement.

00:05:53.600 And yet, no one really batted an eye at it.

00:05:55.780 The media didn't cover it,

00:05:56.940 despite the fact that hundreds of journalists

00:05:58.980 were watching the speech.

00:06:00.820 Did anyone bother to fact-check the statement?

00:06:03.080 Did anyone ask a simple question?

00:06:05.360 What do you mean the United Nations

00:06:06.500 called this genocide?

00:06:07.640 When? Where?

00:06:09.200 It's worth spending a little bit of time

00:06:10.680 talking about this word, genocide,

00:06:12.860 because it just gets thrown around so much today.

00:06:15.180 But I think it's worthwhile to talk about

00:06:16.820 why it is incorrect

00:06:17.940 to use it in the context of unmarked graves

00:06:20.300 found near residential schools.

00:06:22.580 This is from the United Nations

00:06:24.000 Office on Genocide Prevention

00:06:25.440 and the Responsibility to Protect.

00:06:27.440 It talks about the history of the word

00:06:28.800 and what it means.

00:06:29.820 So here we go.

00:06:31.200 The word genocide was first coined

00:06:32.600 by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944

00:06:35.460 in his book,

00:06:36.800 Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. 0.86

00:06:38.640 It consists of the Greek prefix,

00:06:40.920 genos, meaning race or tribe,

00:06:42.860 and the Latin suffix,

00:06:44.420 side, meaning killing.

00:06:46.300 Lemkin developed the term partly in response

00:06:48.220 to the Nazi policy of systematic murder

00:06:50.860 of Jewish people during the Holocaust,

00:06:52.840 but also in response to previous instances

00:06:54.760 in history of targeted actions

00:06:56.840 aimed at the destruction

00:06:58.140 of particular groups of people.

00:06:59.900 So in other words,

00:07:00.700 the international community was so horrified

00:07:02.560 by the systematic way that Nazis murdered Jews.

00:07:05.460 They murdered millions of Jews 1.00

00:07:07.240 in concentration camps and gas chambers.

00:07:09.560 It was so chilling and so atrocious

00:07:11.440 that we literally created a new word

00:07:13.500 to describe the horror.

00:07:14.820 It wasn't just an act of war.

00:07:16.180 It wasn't just a familiar story of the time

00:07:18.620 where one nation attacks another,

00:07:20.660 pillages and kills,

00:07:21.860 and takes their land. 0.82

00:07:23.000 What the Nazis did was far worse.

00:07:25.660 They intentionally and deliberately 0.83

00:07:27.100 tried to destroy the Jewish race 1.00

00:07:28.800 by murdering all Jews. 0.99

00:07:31.100 This is the origin of the word genocide, 1.00

00:07:33.520 meaning to wipe out an entire race of people 0.99

00:07:35.760 by murdering them all. 0.99

00:07:37.960 Now, according to the definition 0.99

00:07:39.460 of what constitutes genocide,

00:07:41.720 according to international legal definitions

00:07:43.740 laid out in the Genocide Convention,

00:07:45.380 there must be two main elements

00:07:48.000 in order to constitute genocide.

00:07:50.020 There must be a mental element

00:07:51.580 and there must be a physical element.

00:07:53.660 So let me read a little bit more

00:07:54.900 from the United Nations definition.

00:07:56.640 So first, the mental element.

00:07:58.500 The mental element is the intent

00:07:59.980 to destroy in whole or in part

00:08:02.220 a national, ethnical, racial,

00:08:05.060 or religious group as such.

00:08:06.840 And also, two, the physical element.

00:08:09.240 The physical element includes

00:08:10.840 the following five acts.

00:08:12.680 So it has to include all five of these things. 0.97

00:08:15.700 Killing members of a group, 0.51

00:08:17.120 causing serious bodily or mental harm 0.98

00:08:19.580 to members of the group,

00:08:20.960 deliberately inflicting on the group

00:08:22.940 conditions of life calculated

00:08:24.360 to bring about its physical destruction

00:08:26.140 in whole or in part,

00:08:27.880 imposing measures intended

00:08:29.240 to prevent births within the group,

00:08:31.240 and forcibly transferring children

00:08:33.720 of the group to another group.

00:08:36.520 So those are the elements

00:08:37.700 that all must be there

00:08:38.760 in order to call something genocide.

00:08:40.380 People try to argue that that last bit,

00:08:42.740 forcibly transferring children,

00:08:44.540 is what happened to residential schools

00:08:46.180 and therefore it's genocide.

00:08:47.780 But keep in mind,

00:08:48.620 you have to have done all of these things,

00:08:50.340 not just one of them,

00:08:51.200 but all of them.

00:08:52.340 So I'll just continue to read.

00:08:54.260 The intent is the most difficult element

00:08:56.080 to determine.

00:08:57.200 To constitute genocide,

00:08:58.540 there must be a proven intent

00:09:00.220 on the part of the perpetrators

00:09:01.500 to physically destroy a nation,

00:09:04.140 ethnical, racial, or religious group.

00:09:06.400 Cultural destruction does not suffice, 0.95

00:09:08.500 nor does an intent to simply disperse a group.

00:09:11.520 This is a special intent

00:09:12.820 that makes the crime of genocide so unique.

00:09:16.340 So did you catch that last sentence

00:09:17.780 about cultural destruction?

00:09:19.720 In other words,

00:09:20.240 there's no such thing as cultural genocide.

00:09:22.760 The term genocide

00:09:23.380 shouldn't be watered down with qualifiers.

00:09:25.600 Just like you can't culturally murder someone,

00:09:27.660 you cannot commit cultural genocide.

00:09:30.060 We already have another term

00:09:31.260 that's used for stripping away culture. 0.99

00:09:33.200 It's called assimilation. 0.72

00:09:34.520 Now maybe we should come up

00:09:35.600 with an even stronger word than that,

00:09:37.140 but right now that's the word that we have,

00:09:38.920 assimilation.

00:09:39.880 And it is not the same thing

00:09:41.120 as mass murdering

00:09:42.860 with the intent to wipe out an entire group.

00:09:45.340 Those are not the same thing.

00:09:46.940 Now, not too long ago,

00:09:48.000 this all was common sense.

00:09:49.440 Just take a look at this

00:09:50.460 Globe and Mail article from 2015.

00:09:53.320 The headline reads,

00:09:54.460 Chief Justice Says Canada Attempted

00:09:56.460 Cultural Genocide on Aboriginals. 0.76

00:09:58.620 Now first,

00:09:59.520 notice how cultural genocide is in quotations.

00:10:02.420 And that's because at the time

00:10:03.780 when it was used,

00:10:04.900 it wasn't really thought to be a real thing.

00:10:06.760 I'll just read the first few lines of the article

00:10:09.140 so you get a feel for

00:10:10.300 how the term was used at the time.

00:10:12.500 Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverly McLaughlin

00:10:15.460 says Canada attempted to commit

00:10:17.260 cultural genocide against Aboriginal people

00:10:19.940 in what she calls

00:10:21.040 the worst stain on Canada's human rights record.

00:10:23.700 Genocide,

00:10:24.280 an attempt to destroy a people in whole or part,

00:10:26.540 is a crime under international law.

00:10:28.320 The United Nations Convention

00:10:29.340 on the Prevention and Punishment

00:10:30.540 of the Crime of Genocide, 0.75

00:10:32.080 adopted in 1948,

00:10:33.700 does not use the phrase cultural genocide,

00:10:35.760 but says genocide may include

00:10:37.940 serious mental harm to a group.

00:10:40.640 Chief Justice McLaughlin appears to be

00:10:42.300 the highest ranking Canadian official

00:10:43.680 to use the phrase.

00:10:45.060 Former Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin

00:10:46.700 used it two years ago

00:10:47.700 in describing residential schools

00:10:49.080 for Aboriginal children

00:10:50.180 when he testified before

00:10:51.460 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

00:10:53.000 set up by the Conservative government.

00:10:54.980 So that was all from

00:10:55.920 the Globe and Mail report.

00:10:57.820 And keep in mind,

00:10:58.460 the Globe and Mail report

00:10:59.460 is no right-wing publication.

00:11:01.480 It's probably centre-left.

00:11:02.720 It's more accurate.

00:11:04.060 But just six years ago,

00:11:05.700 using this term in this context

00:11:07.580 was considered a little shocking 0.78

00:11:09.200 and a little silly.

00:11:10.600 But now, today, 0.80

00:11:11.360 it gets thrown around everywhere.

00:11:12.960 And even without that qualifier,

00:11:14.540 without saying cultural genocide,

00:11:16.260 that's quite the leap to make.

00:11:18.140 And despite what the AFN chief says,

00:11:20.640 the United Nations has not,

00:11:22.040 in fact,

00:11:22.840 declared or named this genocide.

00:11:25.580 Now, I'll just say this.

00:11:26.720 I don't hold the United Nations

00:11:27.760 in very high regard.

00:11:29.280 It's a highly corrupt organization

00:11:30.600 that frankly has no moral high ground.

00:11:32.960 It allows flagrant human rights abusers

00:11:35.360 to chair committees on human rights.

00:11:36.840 It gives mass murderers and dictators

00:11:38.880 a platform to spew their lies. 0.99

00:11:41.040 And it allows evil and corrupt leaders

00:11:42.760 equal standing to liberal democracies.

00:11:45.260 It's a farce.

00:11:46.360 And I say this as someone

00:11:47.140 who studied international relations

00:11:48.580 and international law in grad school

00:11:50.020 and who has participated

00:11:51.340 in UN summits and conferences.

00:11:53.500 But just look at the way

00:11:54.760 that the United Nations

00:11:55.960 covered this story in Kamloops.

00:11:57.800 This is a headline from the United Nations.

00:12:00.180 It says,

00:12:00.600 UN independent experts

00:12:03.280 call for full-fledged investigations

00:12:05.800 into mass grave at indigenous school.

00:12:09.100 Now, as you know,

00:12:09.880 there was no mass grave.

00:12:11.460 That was a word that was thrown around

00:12:12.960 irresponsibly and recklessly

00:12:14.460 by the legacy media

00:12:16.060 and apparently by the United Nations as well.

00:12:19.380 The chiefs of the bands

00:12:20.580 that had made the revelations,

00:12:22.260 made the announcements

00:12:22.880 about the unmarked graves

00:12:23.900 have had to come forth

00:12:25.040 and clarify that these are not mass graves.

00:12:27.660 But that doesn't matter.

00:12:28.680 The UN is still throwing it around.

00:12:30.180 Of course, words do matter

00:12:31.860 and the UN throwing out

00:12:33.220 incorrect and politically loaded propaganda

00:12:35.740 is in and of itself self-indicted.

00:12:38.680 But even the corrupt UN

00:12:39.980 has not gone so far

00:12:41.200 as to say the residential schools

00:12:42.920 constitute genocide.

00:12:44.280 Nowhere could we at True North

00:12:46.220 find any time that the UN

00:12:48.140 has uttered the word genocide

00:12:49.500 in connection to residential schools.

00:12:52.120 Nowhere have they made that accusation.

00:12:54.660 They haven't because it wasn't.

00:12:56.960 There was no intent to wipe out an entire people.

00:12:59.360 Quite the opposite.

00:13:00.420 The intent of residential schools,

00:13:01.900 as best we could tell,

00:13:02.960 was to help,

00:13:04.120 to lift a community out of poverty,

00:13:06.040 to help them succeed

00:13:07.160 in an industrializing society,

00:13:08.620 and to give them an opportunity

00:13:10.680 with education.

00:13:11.960 Now, you could rightly argue

00:13:13.460 that the policy was an abject failure.

00:13:15.940 That's also true.

00:13:17.020 And it's true that horrible,

00:13:18.400 unspeakable crimes

00:13:19.340 were committed

00:13:20.120 at these residential schools.

00:13:21.760 But as we know,

00:13:23.040 intent matters,

00:13:24.120 and all crimes do not equate

00:13:25.980 to the very worst crime imaginable.

00:13:28.760 So while residential schools

00:13:30.060 have never been determined

00:13:31.020 to be genocide by the UN,

00:13:33.160 interestingly,

00:13:34.220 while I was fact-checking the statement,

00:13:36.060 I was probably the only journalist

00:13:37.440 in the country

00:13:38.240 that was bothering

00:13:38.980 to fact-check this politician.

00:13:41.000 When I was fact-checking, though,

00:13:42.240 I did stumble upon

00:13:43.480 the UN talking about genocide

00:13:45.480 in the Canadian context.

00:13:47.620 So in 2019,

00:13:49.140 the highly politicized

00:13:50.400 National Inquiry

00:13:51.540 for Missing and Murdered

00:13:52.660 Indigenous Women and Girls

00:13:53.820 put out their report,

00:13:55.420 and they called

00:13:56.020 these murders genocide.

00:13:57.660 Now, I could do an entire show 0.99

00:13:58.980 on this ridiculous inquiry, 0.91

00:14:01.040 the extreme political bias, 0.96

00:14:02.300 the over-the-top ideology

00:14:03.440 that led the research,

00:14:04.700 the endless flaws

00:14:05.480 in their approach,

00:14:06.200 and perhaps one day

00:14:07.240 I will do a show

00:14:08.060 on that point,

00:14:09.320 but for today,

00:14:09.820 I'll just say a few things.

00:14:10.940 So the commission,

00:14:12.140 which was given a mandate

00:14:13.080 and some $92 million

00:14:14.560 in funding

00:14:15.280 by the Trudeau government

00:14:16.180 back in 2015,

00:14:18.020 comprised of just four people,

00:14:20.060 four far-left lawyers

00:14:21.640 and activists

00:14:22.340 who spun the truth,

00:14:23.720 stuffed it full of hyperbole

00:14:24.900 and ideological rhetoric,

00:14:26.200 and concluded

00:14:26.840 that murdered Indigenous women 0.99

00:14:28.420 amounted to genocide.

00:14:30.260 Now, keep in mind

00:14:30.940 that a few years earlier,

00:14:32.000 in 2014 and 2015,

00:14:34.080 the RCMP

00:14:34.660 did their own report

00:14:35.980 on the same issue

00:14:36.940 on the missing

00:14:38.300 and murdered Aboriginal women, 0.80

00:14:40.040 and I read both reports.

00:14:42.100 The facts are truly troubling.

00:14:43.920 First Nations women

00:14:44.660 in Canada are murdered

00:14:45.780 at a much higher rate

00:14:47.140 than non-Indigenous women,

00:14:48.600 up to six times more.

00:14:50.200 Now, that, of course,

00:14:50.900 is a problem.

00:14:52.040 It's incredibly sad,

00:14:53.080 and more should be done

00:14:53.980 to address this problem.

00:14:55.100 Now, interestingly,

00:14:55.980 this is what the RCMP said

00:14:57.660 about the deaths

00:14:59.100 that they analyzed.

00:15:00.140 This is a quote

00:15:00.680 from that 2015 RCMP report.

00:15:03.000 The consolidated data

00:15:04.760 from nearly 300

00:15:05.820 contributing police agencies

00:15:07.440 have confirmed

00:15:08.460 that 70% of the offenders

00:15:10.860 were of Aboriginal origin,

00:15:12.720 25% were non-Aboriginal,

00:15:14.720 5% were unknown ethnicity.

00:15:17.100 However, it is not ethnicity

00:15:18.140 of the offender

00:15:18.860 that is relevant,

00:15:19.640 but rather the relationship

00:15:20.620 between the victim

00:15:21.440 and the offender

00:15:22.220 that guides our focus

00:15:23.240 with respect to prevention.

00:15:25.260 Aboriginal females 0.99

00:15:26.060 were killed

00:15:26.580 by a spouse,

00:15:27.420 family member,

00:15:28.040 or intimate relation

00:15:28.980 in 62% of the cases.

00:15:31.440 Now, the National Inquiry

00:15:33.180 under Trudeau

00:15:33.960 did not include

00:15:34.900 these sorts of statistics,

00:15:36.340 and they contend

00:15:36.940 that 70% figure,

00:15:38.440 they say that

00:15:39.140 that is not true.

00:15:40.020 The 2019 report

00:15:41.040 flat-out states

00:15:42.120 that the 70% figure

00:15:43.220 is wrong,

00:15:44.300 while it did not provide

00:15:45.500 another figure

00:15:46.220 to counter that with.

00:15:47.200 Now, interestingly,

00:15:48.880 when the RCMP

00:15:49.520 was studying the issue,

00:15:50.960 they were looking

00:15:51.360 at a much smaller

00:15:52.340 pool of cases.

00:15:53.540 So, according to

00:15:54.360 the Native Women's

00:15:55.260 Association of Canada

00:15:56.240 as a National Database,

00:15:57.720 from 1960 to 2010,

00:15:59.980 there were 582

00:16:02.520 missing and murdered

00:16:03.660 Indigenous women. 0.73

00:16:05.140 And yet,

00:16:05.520 when the National Inquiry

00:16:06.560 released its 2019 report,

00:16:08.600 they pegged the number

00:16:09.280 at almost 10 times higher,

00:16:11.340 stating that there are

00:16:11.980 roughly 4,000 murders

00:16:13.740 that they analyzed.

00:16:14.800 Now, they didn't provide

00:16:15.540 an exact number,

00:16:16.700 and they didn't provide

00:16:17.560 any data on the ethnicity

00:16:19.180 of the murderers.

00:16:20.820 So, how did they land

00:16:21.720 on that conclusion

00:16:22.340 of genocide?

00:16:23.260 Well, this is from

00:16:23.860 a CBC report at the time.

00:16:25.780 It says,

00:16:26.120 the report concludes

00:16:27.380 that a genocide driven

00:16:28.700 by the disproportionate

00:16:30.420 level of violence

00:16:31.200 faced by Indigenous 0.98

00:16:32.080 women and girls

00:16:32.780 occurred in Canada

00:16:34.000 through state actions

00:16:35.640 and inactions

00:16:36.740 rooted in colonialism

00:16:38.100 and colonial ideologies.

00:16:40.720 I'll continue from the report

00:16:41.960 just so you get a little taste

00:16:42.960 of the ideology

00:16:43.720 that I'm talking about.

00:16:45.500 It says,

00:16:45.920 we do know that thousands

00:16:47.400 of Indigenous women,

00:16:48.880 girls, 0.91

00:16:49.480 and 2SLGBTQQIA,

00:16:53.780 and that stands for

00:16:54.780 Two-Spirit,

00:16:56.180 Lesbian, Gay,

00:16:57.060 Bisexual,

00:16:57.700 Transgender,

00:16:58.560 Queer, 1.00

00:16:59.060 Questioning,

00:16:59.760 Intersex, 1.00

00:17:00.500 and Asexual,

00:17:01.880 have been lost

00:17:02.640 to the Canadian genocide

00:17:03.880 to date.

00:17:05.400 The fact that

00:17:06.220 First Nations,

00:17:06.980 Inuit,

00:17:07.340 and Métis peoples

00:17:08.220 are still here

00:17:09.320 and that the population

00:17:10.420 is growing

00:17:11.120 should not discount

00:17:12.420 the charge of genocide.

00:17:13.780 So even though

00:17:15.280 we don't know

00:17:15.680 who carried out

00:17:16.180 this violence,

00:17:16.920 the report never says,

00:17:18.340 the mere disproportionality

00:17:20.140 and the history

00:17:21.380 of colonialism

00:17:22.100 equates to genocide,

00:17:24.280 we're told by this report.

00:17:25.820 And who is to blame?

00:17:26.820 Who exactly carried out

00:17:27.780 this genocide

00:17:28.300 since the murdered women

00:17:29.680 were murdered by individuals,

00:17:31.400 not by the government

00:17:32.160 or on behalf

00:17:32.880 of the government?

00:17:33.720 This is how the commission

00:17:34.980 circled that square.

00:17:36.980 Canada's Crimes Against Humanity

00:17:38.480 and War Crimes Act

00:17:39.360 passed in 2000

00:17:40.280 offers a broad definition

00:17:41.860 saying genocide

00:17:42.960 can encompass

00:17:43.960 not only acts

00:17:44.920 of commission

00:17:45.640 but also acts

00:17:47.120 of omission.

00:17:48.600 You get that?

00:17:49.520 They've expanded

00:17:50.100 the definition

00:17:50.660 so broadly

00:17:51.660 that it no longer

00:17:52.500 just includes

00:17:53.200 deliberate acts

00:17:54.200 to destroy a group

00:17:54.940 of people.

00:17:55.720 It now also includes

00:17:56.960 acts of omission,

00:17:58.400 meaning the failure

00:17:59.460 of the RCMP

00:18:00.240 to proactively

00:18:01.640 stop murders

00:18:02.520 within First Nations

00:18:03.380 communities

00:18:04.000 constitutes genocide.

00:18:06.200 Now that,

00:18:06.820 in and of itself,

00:18:07.640 should be shocking.

00:18:08.800 But perhaps

00:18:09.320 most shocking of all

00:18:10.320 is the fact

00:18:11.120 that the Prime Minister

00:18:11.900 of Canada

00:18:12.420 conceded this point.

00:18:14.500 So here it is.

00:18:15.740 The Prime Minister

00:18:16.260 of Canada,

00:18:16.840 Justin Trudeau,

00:18:17.920 accepting the findings

00:18:19.120 of that radical report

00:18:20.580 stating that

00:18:21.640 the disproportionate

00:18:22.740 murder rate

00:18:23.340 of Indigenous women

00:18:24.100 in Canada

00:18:24.580 in Canadian society

00:18:25.920 today,

00:18:26.920 not 150 years ago,

00:18:28.580 but today,

00:18:29.740 amounts to genocide.

00:18:31.680 As I said,

00:18:32.280 we accept those findings.

00:18:33.600 We accept the finding

00:18:34.540 that this was genocide.

00:18:35.980 Folks,

00:18:36.480 we live in a world

00:18:37.320 where facts don't matter,

00:18:38.760 where the meaning

00:18:39.340 of words can change

00:18:40.540 to fit a political narrative

00:18:41.940 and where the grievances

00:18:43.180 never end.

00:18:44.460 I'm Candace Malcolm

00:18:45.140 and this is

00:18:45.800 The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:18:46.600 The Candace Malcolm

00:18:51.240 is Right in

00:19:05.640 at belees,

00:19:06.140 the dress

00:19:07.560 the way

00:19:07.940 can change

00:19:08.680 the ruim

00:19:09.480 and this is

00:19:09.780 the錯

00:19:10.540 and that is

00:19:10.800 the dimens

00:19:11.500 of that

00:19:12.120 This is

Juno News - July 21, 2021

Is Canada Guilty of Genocide？

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