Juno News - October 12, 2023


The truth about Indigenous female murders in Canada

Hosted by
Harrison Faulkner
Mentioned
Fred Hahn Justin Trudeau Zachary Tisdale Lauren Gunter X. You McMaster Drop
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11 minutes

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In 2019, a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls formally accused the federal government of carrying out an ongoing genocide of Indigenous women. But new statistics reveal that this is not a genocide, but a complete failure of the Canadian justice system.

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00:00:00.000 Two years before the unmarked graves hoax swept the nation and churches all across the country were burned to the ground after politicians and high-profile activists accused Canada of committing acts of genocide during the residential school program, in 2019 a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls formally accused the federal government of killing the
00:00:29.980 carrying out an ongoing genocide of indigenous women. It turns out, however, that just like the story of the claims of unmarked graves, when it comes to the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls story, the data doesn't match the theory. And it's not as if Canadians actually needed empirical data to know that an ongoing genocide of indigenous women wasn't actually taking place. Most likely dismissed the absurd accusations in 2019 without giving it second thought. But our government didn't. In fact, Justin Trudeau back in
00:00:59.960 2019 claimed that the Canadian government accepts the findings of genocide. Think about that for a second. A leader of a country accepts the findings that his government is overseeing an ongoing genocide without pushing back on the claims at all, likely having all the data to defend his own government. Well, New Statistics Canada data released last week over the court outcomes of homicides involving indigenous women from 2009 to 2021 reveals that in fact, what we're seeing is not a
00:01:29.940 genocide, but a complete failure of the Canadian justice system. Drop a like in the video, help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube channel. Stick around for the ratio of the week. And a common question for the episode is this. Why do activists in this country want political leaders to admit that Canada is guilty of genocide? Let me know in the comments and let's get into it. Here's Justin Trudeau in 2019 accepting the findings of an inquiry, which essentially accuses his own government of over
00:01:59.920 overseeing an ongoing genocide of indigenous women and girls, the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls formally presented their final report on Monday, in which they found that the tragic violence against indigenous women and girls amounts to genocide. Our government will work with indigenous partners on real and meaningful action. As we review the inquiries calls for justice.
00:02:29.920 As I said, we accept those findings. We accept the finding that this was genocide and we will move forward to end this ongoing national tragedy. Now, this is a classic example of the reality of what's happening in our country, not matching at all with the narrative that is being peddled by far left journalists, progressive activists, and of course, politicians, including all
00:02:59.920 the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. Inquiry are claims that Canada is guilty of racism, of systemic oppression, of genocide, and even colonial violence. For example, in the overarching findings section of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls inquiry report, you'll find this. The significant, persistent, and deliberate pattern of systemic racial and gendered human rights and indigenous rights violations and abuses perpetuated historically
00:03:29.920 by the
00:03:34.600 by the Canadian state designed to displace indigenous peoples from their land, social structures and governance and to eradicate their existence as nations, communities, families and individuals is the cause of the disappearances, murders and violence experienced by indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people and is genocide. This colonialism, discrimination and genocide explains the high rates of violence against indigenous women and
00:03:47.320 girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people and 2SLGBTQQIA people and is genocide. This colonialism, discrimination and genocide explains the high rates of violence against indigenous women and girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. An absolute paradigm shift is required to dismantle colonialism within Canadian society and from all levels of government and public institutions, ideologies and instruments of colonialism, race and
00:04:17.300 racism and misogyny, past and present must be rejected. But who is actually committing all of these murders against indigenous women in Canada? According to Stats Canada data, 86% of people accused of murdering an indigenous woman were themselves indigenous. And 81% of indigenous women who were killed were killed by someone that they knew. And overall, stranger homicides, meaning an indigenous woman being killed by a stranger, a random stranger, was less
00:04:46.980 less likely than it would be if the victim was non-indigenous. And as has been pointed out by the Toronto Sun who reported on these statistics first, the findings that 86% of indigenous women were killed by other indigenous people doesn't make their death any less tragic or horrific. It's just to point out, however, that the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry, which specifically states the following,
00:05:11.320 The often cited statistic that indigenous men are responsible for 70% of murders of indigenous women and girls is not factually based. It turns out that the facts say a different thing altogether, isn't it? The facts state that 86% of indigenous women and girls were killed by someone who was indigenous.
00:05:29.340 The picture being painted based off of the data from statistics Canada is that an epidemic of domestic violence and violence amongst indigenous people is what is driving these awful, awful stories. In fact, 86% as we can see from the data are indigenous on indigenous crime. The problem lies in sentencing. As we know, the Canadian justice system actively has put in place rules that hand out lighter minimum sentences for indigenous offenders 0.73
00:05:59.320 and marginalized offenders. That just means non-white. As Lauren Gunter in the Toronto Sun points out, since 1999, judges have been compelled to give indigenous criminals lighter sentences because of the general hardships of growing up indigenous, family breakup, alcohol and drug abuse, poverty, and the hangover from residential schools. So because most indigenous murder victims are killed by other indigenous people, and because the courts are compelled to give indigenous criminals lighter sentences, one of the unintended
00:06:29.300 consequences has been shorter average sentences has been shorter average sentences for the murderers of indigenous women. To our federal government and to the people who wrote the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls inquiry, that has been described as colonial violence and genocide, the worst crime imaginable. And these claims of genocide that have been repeated by activists and politicians have been repeated ad
00:06:52.300 ad nauseum. First of all, they could start by recognizing that indigenous women in this country have been and continue to be subjected to genocide.
00:06:59.300 Colonialization and genocide are tied to the intersections of indigenous lands and bodies. The kind of acts of genocide that have been perpetrated against indigenous peoples is very clearly linked to willful and violent human rights violations.
00:07:19.300 Petitioners recognize that Canada has committed harm towards indigenous peoples through historical and ongoing genocide.
00:07:28.300 For decades, genocidal policies are enforced by the RCMP and local law enforcement.
00:07:34.300 An unopposed motion labeling Canada as genocidal over the residential school system was passed in the House of Commons in the wake of the unmarked graves hoax.
00:07:45.300 And these claims of genocide in 2019, which were completely unopposed by politicians in Ottawa and were accepted by the news media in Canada, led into a narrative in 2021 when indigenous bands claimed that they had found the remains of unmarked graves.
00:08:01.300 Of course, the genocide narrative was peddled once again.
00:08:05.300 And what happened? Well, churches across the country were burned to the ground.
00:08:10.300 Christians, most of whom lived amongst other indigenous people, were left without a place of worship because vandals had razed their churches to the ground.
00:08:20.300 Claiming that a genocide is taking the lives of indigenous women in our communities and not mentioning the fact that the majority of these people were killed by other indigenous people is doing a great disservice to the indigenous people in this country.
00:08:32.300 And giving lighter sentences to indigenous people who commit murder is not justice for the families that have lost loved ones.
00:08:39.300 But to far-left politicians who seem hell-bent on pushing the narrative that Canada is a racist, genocidal, colonial state, they will never let the facts get in the way of pushing that divisive message.
00:08:51.300 All right, time for the ratio of the week.
00:08:54.300 The winner this week is Fred Hahn, the QP Ontario president, the president of the largest public sector union in the country.
00:09:04.300 After Hamas attacked Israel, killing hundreds of innocent civilians, QP Local 3906 felt it was a good time to post this.
00:09:16.300 Palestine is rising, long live the resistance, as Hamas terrorists are killing Israeli civilians.
00:09:23.300 Well, Fred Hahn liked that tweet.
00:09:26.300 He actually went and made sure to like that tweet himself.
00:09:29.300 And also on Thanksgiving, Fred Hahn said that he was thankful for the resistance.
00:09:34.300 Now, QP 3906, which is a McMaster chapter of the QP union, were forced to delete that tweet because it was just so heartless and unbelievable, actually, that they got ratioed so badly they had to delete the tweet.
00:09:51.300 Fred Hahn, however, doubled down until yesterday when he was forced by somebody to say that, in fact, he did not endorse violence.
00:09:59.300 But really, you're getting kind of close there, aren't you?
00:10:03.300 If not directly endorsing violence, he wrote the following.
00:10:06.300 For anyone to imagine that I would ever endorse violence is horrific to me.
00:10:10.300 It speaks volumes about the times we're in.
00:10:12.300 I have spent my adult life fighting for justice for workers, building power and solidarity for working people to resist to win better.
00:10:20.300 People didn't really seem to accept whatever this tweet is trying to say.
00:10:24.300 2,331 replies to only 753 likes.
00:10:29.300 As Zachary Tisdale responded,
00:10:31.300 You did endorse it. We can see your activity on X.
00:10:34.300 You also endorsed the sexual mutilation of minors by promoting gender ideology in schools. 0.77
00:10:39.300 You were there in person.
00:10:41.300 You were not fighting for justice. You're a Marxist fighting for communism.
00:10:45.300 We don't need to imagine. We watched you with our own eyes.
00:10:49.300 From my perch out west, Fred Hahn being the head of Ontario's QP is hard to believe.
00:10:54.300 Letting him keep that job is even harder to comprehend.
00:10:57.300 Alright everyone, that's going to do it for us this week on the show.
00:10:59.300 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:11:01.300 My name is Harrison Faulkner and this is Ratio.