carrionthrash:

carrionthrash:

carrionthrash:

the fact that trudeau made a statement after the colton boushie murder trial verdict essentially saying “yeah this is really fucked up 😦 wish canada was less racist :((” is fucking insulting considering he runs the country. hey justin get off your pampered colonist ass and do something about it you useless liberal dipshit coward

trudeau while running for office and giving speeches: I’m going to STAND UP for our aboriginal population.. this “genocide” deal has gone on LONG ENOUGH! decolonization and wokeness for all! here’s a great photo of me warmly embracing a native community leader #allyship #reconcilation

trudeau after a cree young man is shot at point blank rage and his murderer is allowed to walk free with no consequences whatsoever and thousands in gofundme donations: aw beans :^( really miffed it you guys!

I’m unsure if you’ve genuinely misunderstood my phrasing, or if you’re being deliberately obtuse. That said, I’m going to operate under the assumption that you genuinely don’t know what I meant, and explain.

When I say that Justin Trudeau should “do something about it” in response to the Colton Boushie murder trial verdict, I don’t mean he should overrule this specific court case. I am very aware of the limited power of the prime minister with regards to legal and judicial matters and was not suggesting he intervene directly. I mean that when he apologizes in general for the state of race relations in Canada, that apology is meaningless without concrete action moving forward to reform the judicial system and keep cases like this from playing out this way in the future. I mean that he should do something about the larger systemic issues that led to this trial turning out the way that it did, and that he can only come off as insincere and hypocritical in his sympathies on this issue while continuing to make policy decisions that further marginalize and exploit Aboriginal people.

In his term as prime minister, Trudeau has consistently disappointed Aboriginal Canadians by failing to live up to his campaign promises of reconciliation.

He has dismissed Indigenous claims to land rights and sided with large corporate development over the well-being of our people despite his supposed investment in our communities. He has moved forward with pipeline development on indigenous land, such as the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project which the government approved last year, which was found in a report to the United Nations to “pose an unacceptable risk to the health, safety and livelihoods of First Nations throughout British Columbia.” He could do something about that.

Throughout his leadership, he has consistently dodged calls for him to launch a successful national inquiry into the overwhelming number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada. He has not addressed the massive failure of his government’s system to protect these women and girls. He has not addressed the social and economic conditions that Aboriginal people live in that contribute to that problem existing in the first place, and to the overall heightened threat of violence that faces aboriginal people in this country. He could do something about that.

During the height of the Attawapiskat suicide crisis, he was taking selfies with other rich white people and eating hors d’oeuvres at a banquet. This was an immediate and catastrophic situation, with up to 11 children attempting suicide in a day in the small community of around 2,000 people, and with local medical facilities (which are abhorrently underfunded and could at liberal estimates only manage a quarter of the population) struggling to keep up with their already limited resources being exhausted. Community leaders were pleading for immediate help from the government. He could have done something about that. In fact, he could still do something about it – despite his apologies and promises do do better then, Attawapiskat and other first nations communities like it are still struggling and without mental health supports two years later.

The Attawapiskat suicide epidemic did not exist in isolation. There have been similar events since, there were similar events previously, and they will continue to happen without serious intervention. In 2014, a leading United Nations human rights expert declared the situation of First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada has reached “crisis proportions in many respects” in an official report. This crisis includes:

• “distressing socio-economic conditions” and inadequate funding of health care, housing, education, welfare, and social services for Indigenous communities;
• over-representation of Indigenous women and men in the prison system;
• high rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls;
• exclusion of Indigenous peoples from effective participation in decisions that affect their rights, particularly in respect to resource development;
• and a federal discourse about taxes and the economy that places Indigenous peoples “outside, and in opposition to, ‘Canadian’ interests, rather than understanding indigenous people to be an integral aspect of those interests.”

So, in terms of what he can do other than give speeches and make apologies, he could do something about those things. That would be a start.