Open Racism Underpins Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson’s Bid For Reelection
After jumping on the trendy anti-trans bandwagon, the ruling Progressive Conservatives are now counting on the unrepentant racism of social conservatives to carry the day
The systemic oppression of Indigenous people at the hands of Canada’s institutional racism and colonialism is well documented, and not disputed by any rational person: the Indian Act, the reservation system, unsafe drinking water, disenfranchisement, broken treaties, police violence, over-incarceration, generations of abuses in residential schools, discriminatory treatment accessing healthcare, food poverty, malnourishment, substance abuse, youth suicide epidemics, lack of educational and employment opportunities.
All thoroughly documented, all available at your fingertips with the most cursory search. Taken as a whole, all amounting to inter-generational genocide.
And that’s not even counting the separate and continuing slow motion genocide of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. An unremitting orgy of violence against women at the hands of men, and subsequently swept aside due to the racist and misogynistic inaction of Canada’s founded-in-colonialism policing…
