Thread by @BreenOuellette

Between this tweet and the one above it in that thread, the verdict is:

"It's the voters and policy, not Canada!"

No, it's Canada. The Charter and human rights laws cannot ameliorate tyranny of the majority without some fiction of Canada as a legally responsible person...

https://twitter.com/MorganeOgerBC/status/1375093219520770048

If we fail to hold #Canada accountable for crimes it commits b/c "voters", then we allow #Canada (or other states) to have supremacy over, or immunity from, the obligations of a legal person.

A mistake b/c then no one is accountable, and tyranny of the majority thrives...

No one is accountable b/c blaming voters is an empty judgement.

We can't force all voters to stop #Canada's #apartheid & #genocide. That's undemocratic.

But Canada and its leaders can be prosecuted. That's justice.

Plus it deters future leaders from committing these crimes...

Plenty of #Canada's leaders are still alive today who were complicit in #apartheid and #genocide.

Jean Chretien comes straight to mind. In the 70s he ignored the sterilization of Inuit women in the north by Canadian doctors. It's in Hansard.

Chretien became Prime Minister...

How many lives would have been saved if PM Chretien had to face an international court and answer for #Canada's #apartheid, #genocide, and other #CrimesAgainstHumanity?

There is no accurate count of the lives lost. That's how systemic racism contributes to the problem...

#Canada must be stopped.

It is a constitutionally-enshrined #apartheid state, engaging in #genocide for decades, but also with human rights laws enshrined in its constitution.

Which one has no place in a modern democracy?

Human rights? Or apartheid & genocide? ...

Section 91 of the Constitution Act, 1867, sets out the powers of the federal government. It is a long list consisting mostly of categories of property.

Then we get to item 24: "Indians and Lands reserved for Indians".

"Indians" are akin to property in #Canada's highest law...

#Canada uses the fact that "Indians" are a category of pseudo-property in the Constitution to enact racist #apartheid legislation to supplement the racist common law.

It's built up with the Indian Act: still in force today.

And racist, vile common law "principles" enforce it...

But the #apartheid is also supported by dozens of other racist Acts, Regulations, and public bodies.

The #RCMP is just one of many willing to rush in and suppress Indigenous rights. Rights held since time immemorial. Rights which #Canada keeps trying and failing to extinguish...

At the National Inquiry into #MMIWG, #RCMP Commissioner Lucki apologized for RCMP failures.

Two years later, she denied systemic racism exists within the force. Just a few bad apples.

But it goes A FEW BAD APPLES SPOIL THE WHOLE DAMN BUNCH...

https://twitter.com/BreenOuellette/status/1270875333143564288

#RCMP Commissioner Lucki is still the top federal cop, over nine months later, BTW.

Despite the proof that she was only paying lip service at the National Inquiry.

What's up with that, @JustinTrudeau? ...

#Canada's #genocide is the main driver to extinguish Indigenous rights. By inflicting unchecked trauma on Indigenous people. To weaken us.

Thousands of hours of many testimonies were collected by the National Inquiry into #MMIWG. Some for which I acted as the lawyer of record...

The testimonies of the National Inquiry supported a Genocide Supplementary Report and the Final Report, including the FINDING OF GENOCIDE.

THIS WAS HUGE...

#Canada's National Inquiry of its own making found CANADA responsible for an ONGOING GENOCIDE against women, girls, and two-spirited people.

Voters get mentioned ZERO TIMES in the report, BTW...

But the National Inquiry finding of genocide has no teeth.

A commission of inquiry does not have a court's power to order the government to stop its crimes. Commissions only investigate and report.

That's why #Canada needs to submit to an international court (and not voters)...

Through the entire #apartheid & #genocide, only one party was always involved.

#Canada. By action or omission. By commission of crime, aiding and abetting it, or by turning a blind eye to it...

Sure, individuals did the dirty work of #apartheid & #genocide, but #Canada itself was and is always present, promoting anti-Indigenous racism among the population to keep the apartheid & genocide going.

In contravention of many domestic & int'l laws, new and old and ancient...

To argue that states should be exempt from prosecution of #genocide is to allow genocide to continue in states that are able to maintain majority support for genocide and other #CrimesAgainstHumanity.

This world view would see me dead.

This world view would see Morgane dead...

So I ask again. Which one has no place in a modern democracy?

Human rights protections?

Or #apartheid & #genocide?

I believe that Morgane knows the right answer, but I suspect that her privilege was getting in the way during her thread...

Morgane lives a life of constantly defending herself from terrible people. Every day. I've witnessed it, I abhor it, and I denounce it.

But Morgane isn't one of many generations that have always been constitutionally oppressed by #Canada as pseudo-property for exploitation...

To my knowledge, Morgane hasn't experienced intergenerational #apartheid & #genocide, constitutionally entrenched by her state for the purpose of transferring wealth to others at the expense of her ancestors, herself, and her descendants: the original, rightful titleholders...

@JustinTrudeau was dead honest when he said that #Canada's most important relationship is with Indigenous Peoples.

Our lands, our resources, us, our children: from Canada's start, an extractive relationship to generate Canada's wealth.

Gee, thanks for the shout out, Justin! ...

We should be natural allies with Morgane, but it is a struggle to ally with someone who ignores #Canada's left boot firmly planted on our lands while its right boot is pressing down on our throats.

Because "voters". Or some other excuse to explain away Canada's ongoing crimes...

It is my continuing hope that Morgane and all Canadians will do the work to understand the truth behind Canada's #apartheid and #genocide.

Read the National Inquiry Genocide Supp & Final Report, below.

REJECT the fiction that Canada should be allowed to continue these crimes...

Here's your assigned reading for the week. The first of many weeks to come.

You have got a lot of catching up to do.

mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/

This thread may seem long, but it's the tip of a very, very large iceberg.