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i am going to say hello to the guest the guests who introduce themselves to you hi larry so welcome to the string to our international audience who are. oh mamma. a member of into parliament in ontario florida writing ok right now going i'm originally from the charlotte it's good to have you had a town yet great to have you in the stream tell everybody he won't. busy and in time is frightening is that my name is tiny r and i live in toronto my mom and her family are from fort william 1st nation which is under bay ontario and i am a journalist author and a speaker storyteller. thank you for being in the stream and tristen welcome to the stream tell everybody who you are hello everybody my name is trade center oser i am

a 24 year old musician who currently resides in thompson manitoba i keep central and remote communities and i'm also a photographer and a writer. and and the young activist friends the sketch show and northants the sketch and. look if we're seeing from you or just i want to go back to the september 27th teen when justin trudeau prime minister of canada was very open about some of the issues with indigenous communities in canada he's a remind of what he said that there are today children living on reserve in canada who cannot safely drink bay then or even play in the water that comes out of their town as. there are indigenous care parents in canada who say goodnight to their children and have to

cross their fingers in the hopes that their kids won't run away or take their own lives in the night. tanya that was very candid standing right down in front of the united nations general assembly who 3 years ago . there's an awareness there's a knowledge about suicides amongst indigenous and 1st nation communities in canada and where has that awareness taken captive what's change what's different. so. how more people i think are talking about what's happening in our communities from coast to coast to coast with our use there is more of an awareness but it is nowhere near enough you know that was in 2017 our prime minister stood at the united nations and he told the world that our children do not have access to clean

water in our communities in some of our northern communities he told the world that there are parents that worried if their children are going to be there the next day why is that it's because our children sadly many of our people are treated like 2nd class citizens on their own land you know we have communities where there is no boy there is no clean running water there is no working sewage system we have communities where there is a lack of housing where we have $12.00 story generations are living together in cramped quarters we have children that do not have access to high school that's a fundamental right of any child growing up in canada has the right to access a high school education but for our kids many live in communities where they have to get on a plane and travel 506 on a congress away from their parents when they're 1314 or 15 just to go to high school you know. our our people as well are struggling oftentimes to get into the

job market all of these factors contribute to why it is our children are taking their lives with their own hands you know this all feeds into a lack of what the world health organization calls the determinants of health what we need to grow healthy children and it's not rocket science you heard prime minister justin trudeau talking about what is happening with our kids and yet we have still failed to address all of these issues. so just before we went on and i got an e-mail she got an e-mail and it came from i'm going to show you here on my laptop from the office of the minister of indigenous services it was a very scary email but i'm just picking a little treat here we know that part of improving mental wellness in 1st nations in your communities means providing better access just fake to sustainable and

appropriate services and the email goes on and on and all i'm going to leave this with you see you can finish reading this on screen for a little bit but so do you feel that the ministry of indigenous services really undisturbed and this critical issue of suicide among its 1st nations people in canada i do see evidence of that. it's unfortunate to say that you know those are good words or good good things to you know i have to say but when you read talk about complacency of you know the government so on that the response of mental health that this for. children and adolescents and then and businesspeople it's in general there is no action and there is limited i who like you know when we talk about suicide strategies the suicide strategy and across the country across the province are you know can

release none of that exists and. i think it's important to understand as well you know the kind of those history of colonialism. you know oppression racism and that's the government's policy is the same but you know. assimilated and there's people with you know in the last the in that in the end you see the lasting effects and they continue to cause distress and marginalization of industries across the country so. it's really you know you know these tools that were in place to colonize indigenous peoples including through resit was such as residential schools you know posture care system and you know of course relocation these are tools that are still in play and to be complacent to you know try to do things and then a. separate segregated way that's not work that we need to bring about the power in

the story to the comedians whereby it's not done in the. top level it should be public release of and community we have to support the communities and the issues that they want to try to address the many issues that they face and. you know they're just nor will they be able to change the issues that are happening. she said i want to play this clip. it's from dr jarvis switch. in a few seconds ducted gyrus sums up what life is like the new many 1st nations communities he sums up why the suicide rates would be so high have a listen seemed really interesting put we have to say often. when i think about suicide in indigenous communities across canada a number of actions come to mind regarding the federal government 1st should be

access to suit drinking water in every indigenous community across this nation secondly access to affordable and healthy foods must be a priority for northern rural remote and reserve communities through canada thirdly the chronic underfunding in the education between indigenous and non-indigenous students across canada must be addressed each of these basic human rights and social determinants of all must adequately be addressed before we even begin to move forward on a national strategy toward indigenous communities and the suicide epidemic being faced just a guy. i agree with him i teach fedele and the community north of thompson manitoba called linley and since the eighty's they haven't had clean drinking water there is an abandoned mine and tailings ponds millions of pounds of it leaked into their water supply and so when i turn on the taps the water isn't often brown color not

something you should see coming out of the tap and that's full of metals and i spoke to a teacher in this community who said that there's so many parents that grew up with this being the norm that there are a lot of children in teens and youth today that are drinking the water because they they never knew any other or any other stories and they just see it as normal. ever when i go i usually take some water with me and also in this community there is there's a lot of kind of sporadic attendance of school. education for our indigenous people in canada is something that is very important as we move forward and address the inequality is and our situations but it's also a context in which we were very severely harmed because of the residential school systems that

a lot of our people were forcibly sent to to be assimilated and and indoctrinated. so that relationship still needs repairing. and i am an optimist i know there are a lot of young indigenous people getting into education my mom and aunties and and people in my family are teachers and principals and have dedicated a lot of their time to education so i understand the importance but on a whole a lot of our young people are still angry at school at the system and a lot of their parents' eyes are still dealing with parents and also themselves that have been trapped by ties that of setting and and i'm hoping that something that that where we're going to begin to address and move forward from i'm an optimist but at the same time having lived and northern substantial and traveled in various parts of northern manitoba i know that we still have

a very long way to go i see i see poverty and i see young people that are getting into lives of gangs and the violence that they perpetrate and i see some southern. educators from city as are ontario who move into northern 1st nations communities only teach for a brief 3 or 4 years to get a bit of experience and then leave to go teach somewhere else in a city where there's better access to things. so i guess a. beatrice's sort so to bump into that i want to share some common somebody or you guess all of you from the meucci secretly lazy says about the canadian government it's all words and no action to the media how is it that the government cannot solve this problem while we are talking about a group that makes up 4.9 percent of the population shot c 100 exactly the

prime minister talks a good game but his actions always fall short this is very much the case with indigenous people. yes talk about tangible actions that can happen i don't want to spend the entire shut to hear about the issues and the root causes why are some of the things that you are seeing as i know you need to talk about this to talk about the suicide rate of young people young indigenous people you have been around canada so people are aware of it it's not a surprise that he's not breaking news them what do you then say. it is not breaking it is a very narrow measurement very. yes. when people say well what can we do what should be done just. exactly you know i just wanted to back up a 2nd and serve that on to interest and was saying because you know the reason and what saul was saying too because the reason why we talk about all of these things

is not just to provide context and you know to keep talking about all of the harms that have happened to all of our people but it's also to show that we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are for instance i can and i am an honest person. and as a notion of a person and i believe that i am connected to the land i believe i'm connected to the air and to the water and to all of the things around us and that is for every indigenous person we feel that connection and when that connection is lost due to residential school due to the fact that we don't know our own stories that we don't have access to water to to to growing healthy children our children become sick our children take their lives and we have to foster you know we have to foster in our kids that sense of belonging that sense of pride in who they are as 1st

nations kids and use and letting them know that they can do anything that they put their minds to they have to know that they're loved and that they belong and that the land matters and that they matter we have to give our kids that pride and that love and you know when you ask what can be done that to me is something that can be done that is what needs to be done is showing our kids how much their lives and how much they need to know that they belong and how can we do that we can do that through a number of ways you know not only through education of our own chance from our own people but also through the lens getting to land based teaching. learning language again learning what matters what stories make you the person you are and that comes from land based learning there is no magic potion there's nothing that i could tell you that will make things better but i do know that

access to land and belonging and loves and who we are will help. i want to bring in another voice into our conversation he samantha multan i love the 10 you talk about young people because it is exactly the direction it's not things going in as well have a listen. in order to see the end of additional suicide we need to be prioritizing the voices of indigenous young people for instance school boards need to a center of the voice sent to the leadership of indigent some people in a way that they're actually holding themselves accountable to indigenous learners some school boards have indigenous student trustee positions but these positions on have voting power so i do understand what the point of that is for their more school boards need to be prioritizing hiring indigenous educators if they're finding that they're not getting a lot of indigenous teachers in their school system they need to question why that is and what systems need to change in order to rectify that because it is key to

the success of indigenous learns to have indigenous teams. were going to miss and against me where the joint session of congress is underway presided over by the vice president and mike pence in his role as president of the senate and he's conducting the constitutional perscribe counting of the electoral college votes which were determined by the results of the never in the 3rd presidential election the key thing to watch out for is here if any further objections come up let's listen in and come a lady harris of the state of california received 4 votes for vice president. are there any objections accounting the certificate of vote from the state of hawaii that the teller is verified appears to be regular in form an authentic. hearing on this certificate from idaho the parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate of vote from the state that purports to be

a return from the state that is an extended a certificate from an authority of the state purporting to appoint or ascertain electors. mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of idaho seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the donald j. trump of the state of florida received 4 votes for president and michael r. pence of the state of indiana received 4 votes for vice president are there any objects accounting the certificate of vote in the state of idaho at the teller has verified appear to be regular form an authentic. airing none of this certificate from illinois parliamentarians advise me as the only certificate of oath in that state before it's to be returned from the state and that is antics to it a certificate from authority of that state before to appoint and ascertain electors . mr president and certificate of the electoral vote in the

state of illinois seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the joseph r. biden jr of the state of delaware receive 20 votes for president and camila de harris of the state of california received 20 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of illinois that the teller is verified appears to be in regular form an authentic hearing none of this certificate from indiana the parliamentarian's it buys me is the only certificate of vote from that state that the ports will be returned from the state and that is an extended a certificate from an authority of that state fording to appoint and ascertain electors. mr president this 3rd to picket of the electoral vote of the state of indiana seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from that donald j. trump of the state of florida received 11 votes for president and michael r.

pants of the state of indiana received 11 votes for vice president. are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote in the state of indiana that the teller is verified appears to be regular in form and authentic airing of this certificate from iowa the parliamentarian's advise is the only certificate of vote from the state of the ports to be returned from the state that is antics to it a certificate from an authority of the state supporting to appoint or ascertain electors mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of iowa seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the donald trump of the state of florida received 6 votes for president and michael are pens the state of indiana received 6 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of iowa that the teller is

verified appears to be regular and authentic hearing none of this certificate from kansas the parliamentarian's advised me is the only certificate of vote from that state the purports to be returned from the state that has an extended a certificate of authority of the state supporting to appoint or ascertain electors mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of kansas seems to be regular in form and authentic it appears there from the donald j. trump of the state of florida receive 6 votes for president and michael are parents of the state of indiana receive 6 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of kansas that the teller is verified appears to be regular in form an authentic hearing none. this certificate from the commonwealth of kentucky the parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate of vote from that state the purported to be a return from the state as an extended

a certificate of authority of the state supporting to appoint or ascertain electors . mr president or certificate of the electoral vote of the commonwealth of kentucky seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the downgrade tromp of the state of florida received 8 votes for president and my crew are pence and the state of indiana received 8 permits for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the commonwealth of kentucky at the teller's verified appears to be regular foreman of. hearing done this certificate from louisiana the parliamentarians advised music only certificate of vote from that state it purports to be returned from the state has an axe to it a certificate of authority from the state reporting to appoint or ascertain electors. mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of louisiana seems to be regular in form and authentic going to appears there from

that donald j. trump of the state of florida received 8 votes for president and michael our hands of the state of indiana received 8 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of louisiana that the tellers verified to be regular informant authentic. hearing none of this certificate from maine the parliamentarians advised is the only certificate of vote from that state to porch to be returned from the state that is an extended a certificate of authority from the state supporting to appoint or ascertain electors. mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of maine seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the joseph biden jr of the state of delaware receive 3 votes for president and donald j. trump of the state of florida received one vote for president and komla dumor of the state of california received 3 votes for vice president and michael r.

pence of the state of indiana received one vote for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of maine that the tellers verified appears to be regular in form and authentic. hearing none of this certificate from marilyn the parliamentarian's advised me as the only certificate of vote from that state reports to be returned from the state as an excuse at a certificate from an authority of the state reporting to appoint or ascertain electors. mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of maryland seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the joseph r. biden jr of the state of delaware receive 10 votes for president and comedy here so the state of california received 10 votes for vice president other objections to county the certificate of the vote of the state of maryland at the teller has

verified appears to be regular form an authentic bearing on the certificate from the commonwealth of massachusetts the parliamentarians advised is the only certificate of vote in that state a force 'd to be overturned from the state and has an axe to it a certificate from an authority of the state reporting to appoint or ascertain electors. mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the commonwealth of massachusetts seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the journals of our biden jr of the state of delaware received 11 votes for president and comrade the parents of the state of california received 11 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of the commonwealth of massachusetts the tellers advised appear to be regular in form and authentic hearing none this certificate from michigan the parliamentarian's

advise is the only certificate of vote that state purports to be returned from the state and his antics to it a certificate of authority of the state affording to appoint or ascertain electors . mr president this or to pick it out of the electoral vote of the state of michigan seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from bed joseph r. biden jr of the state of delaware received 16 votes for president and comedy harris of the state of california receive 16 votes for vice president for his and is a gentle lady from georgia writes mr president i along with 70 of my republican colleagues object to the counting of delectable votes for the state of michigan on the grounds that the error rate precedes the f.e.c. rate allowed at point 0008 percent and that the people who signed

affidavits at risk of perjury their voices have not been heard in a court of law a section 15 and 17 of title 3 of the us code require that any objection be presented writing and signed by a member of the house of representatives and a senator is the objection in writing and signed by a member and a senator the objection is writing not signed by a senator. in that case the objection and i don't . are there any further objections to counting the certificate of the vote from the state of michigan certificate the teller has verified appears to be regular form an authentic hearing no further objections this certificate from minnesota the parliamentarians advise me as the only.