Collaborative Proposal Creation
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- Proposal text
- The Green Party of Canada supports the calls for action from the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls and will work with Indigenous peoples and Indigenous womens' organizations to develop a national Action Plan to address violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people.
- Type of Proposal
- Public policy that the party would represent
- Objective / Benefit
- To send a strong signal to Canadians that Indigenous women are important and valuable. To address the principles of non-violence.
- If your proposal replaces an existing policy or policies, which one does it replace?
- N/A
- List any supporting evidence for your proposal
- Does this proposal affect any particular group and what efforts have been made to consult with the group or groups?
- Indigenous peoples. Regular consultations with my community.
- Jurisdiction: Is this proposal under federal jurisdiction?
- Yes
- Please indicate the language the proposal is being submitted in.
- English
This proposal has been accepted because:
This proposal has been accepted because:
96% voted in favour of adopting this motion at the 19th GM..
96.8% voted in favor of adopting this motion in the post-GM all member (ratification) vote. This motion is now official GPC policy and will be added to the Membership Approved Policy – Green Book.
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Conversation with Larry Dyke
What I don't see in the Action Plan and progress reports is any attempt to address the root causes of Indigenous women's tragic fates. My understanding is that the bulk of perpetrators are Indigenous. Does this mean that most murders are in Indigenous communities? To what extent is drug abuse involved? - I suspect a lot. If so, does the Action Plan need to address this? What about employment. There seem to be well-paid Indigenous bureaucracies with MMIWG offices but are these entities active in communities? I think that there is so much preoccupation with the legacies of abuse that funds and personnel are being directed at that rather than at improving the outlooks for Indigenous people. If the Green Party is going to develop a new Action Plan, would it address these questions?
Hi Larry, I believe Indigenous women, like any women who are impoverished and marginalized are at risk of violence. GPC passed a policy motion at a previous GM to end poverty for Indigenous women. That is part of the problem. But most violence against us is systemic. For example, there was a serial killer in Winnipeg who murdered four Indigenous women, dismembered their bodies and disposed of them in the landfill. He was not an Indigenous person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Winnipeg_serial_killings
In addition to his violence, the former Premier of Manitoba stubbornly refused to search the landfill for these women's bodies and repatriate them to their families. She even went so far as to make it part of her campaign in the past election, dog whistling to racist/misogynist voters.
Safety for people is a human right and when we know people are at risk we need to develop supports. This undertaking needs to involve politicians, police, municipalities, bureaucrats, Indigenous peoples organizations, Indigenous women etc. The policy proposal is intended to set out the thing we are going to do, the commitment we are making. It is not intended to describe the actual plan which we would need to develop.
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