tv Documentary RT January 26, 2023 10:30pm-11:01pm EST
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for have to apologizing to residential school victims. the prime minister tackled the scandal from a song. for many decades, indigenous women and girls across canada have disappeared, suffered violence, or been killed. it is shameful. it is absolutely unacceptable and it must end for the 1st time in the country's history, he acknowledged genocide. this is a gift to to the point of mr. justin trudel has raised the hopes of an entire people, but indigenous women are still dying. ah.
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after all the promises breathing families expect action because most cases are never settled. i wanna make a theresa 100 of these little things maybe more red dresses to denounce the murders and disappearances from school. i know has been affected by the sad reality. her niece died 4 years earlier, found murdered in the basement of her house. the filled forever showing the case has never been solved when a big police are putting out another call for public assistance in a definite a woman more than 7 months ago. anyone with information is called is asked to call investigators. that's it. this year will be 4 years said
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she's been gone. they said they notified a family all the time and they don't notify the family. and her family refused to admit defeat. they will not let it go through with wow, anna betty is fighting for the truth as well. ah, for her, the scandal from a side is a personal issue. her sister died 4 years ago under suspicious circumstances with she was found by a person that was walking your dog in this area here.
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we were told that she had been there for possibly for 2 days. we don't know what happened ever since then. ever since may 2016, we been looking for answers. the body bore signs of a beating with wounds to the head and a fractured sterner. the police concluded death by alcohol poisoning. i refused to accept that someone can say, oh, you know what she died of alcohol poisoning because it makes me angry that if it was a caucasian middle aged man that was found there. like, do you think the same the investigation would have been done? the same way, no, it wouldn't have, they would have been working really hard to find the answers. and so,
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why are we have less value in word disposable. you know that if one of us dies, that you know, it doesn't really matter. there's lots of people who have committed murder in this city and other parts of canada who are walking around 3 with a homicide rate, 4 times greater than the national average. thunder bay is dub canada's crime capital. dozens of suspicious deaths are closed without investigation,
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often involving 1st nations women. ah, for a long time the reality remained hidden until the report by a police watchdog at the cat among the pigeons. mm. mm hm. a skating report by ontario's police watch dog has found under base police service is rife with racism. and the handling of at least 9 cases involving the sudden death of indigenous people were so problematic. they should be re investigated from the systemic racism exists in thunder. bay police service at an institutional level investigations will too often handle differently because they cease was indigenous investigators ignored evidence potentially pointed to a non accidental cause of contribution to the death at least 9. these cases should
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be re investigated by a multi disciplinary team. ah. after months of negotiations, we are given permission to cover the reopening of these 9 neglected cases. but at the last moment, the chief investigator, fails to show the replacement officer is sent to accompany us a local policeman. cities been painted and a little bit of a negative late recently, just with a lot of negative media. our crime. we've been at the top of some of the pretty bad categories when it comes to crime. so your domestics are violent crimes or murder work or higher up there. so a lot of people see that and aid paint funner bay with a certain brush. i don't want anyone thinking that investigations are cut
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short, so we're here to reinvestigate these 9 and kind of go over the top. make sure every single thing is found. every stone is overturned, the officer must restore the police services prestige. it's a daunting task. i feel like that's gonna go a long way and rebuild a lot of the relationships between the police and the community. so we're very on scene here. it's our only indoor scene of the 9 scenes that we're re investigating . so the access is going to be limited. so that's $210.00 east victoria avenue. ah. from the very 1st crime scene, we are kept at a distance our guide seizes the opportunity to make
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a few calls and chat to his colleagues. excited about we leave the car, but the microphone inside is still switched on. although i agreed to do this, these 2 french guys are hilarious. they're amazing. trust. i got a mike on. i got a mike on the 1st turn, the thing off we returned to the car from someone who is the policeman. seems put out by our questions on him. right, right. he redefines the rules governing or interviewing. is there a link between this crimes comes richard i'm sure the schools with all due respect, gentlemen, we've known each other for a couple hours in the way that there's so much negativity given on to the police that i don't especially the funder basically. so i just don't feel comfortable giving those types of answers that could be chopped and put back together. do you
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know what i'm saying? i see. ah, there are 3 boys done here. the tour of crime scenes continues carefulness. no gentlemen, for we carry on along the river of tears, a canal with a sinister reputation. oh, in recent years, several indigenous corpses had been fish out of these waters. some of these cases are part of a new investigation. careful where you walk guys, because there's a lot of empty packages here from needles. so just have a look while you're walking. also on the slain,
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the deaths have been filed under accidental. that's what the police watched on recorded in their report. so this is area, christine glory was found at the end of march 2016. right. by the sign was 29. at the time the woman was found in the early hours, her pants, town and clothes scattered. despite signs of sexual activity and traces of dna held on file, the police quickly closed the case. officially, christina died from hypothermia. why was it's classified as a sudden death? you're saying? yeah. because there was no evidence to say otherwise to lead it into an or criminal investigation. so you can't create evidence freight. if you're living a higher risk lifestyle and you're constantly using and abusing substances,
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then you're gonna put yourself in high risk situations. so for the youths that live that lifestyle, whether whatever race they be, it's, you know, when you're doing that, you're playing a different game. there's, there's a bigger chance of something bad can happen if you surround yourself in situations that have a greater risk to them, to your health and safety. so ah, the usual reference to the indigenous lifestyle it is a common argument put forward by the police with the investigations now reopened. it's a sensitive subject to the case manager can leopard wanted to stick the line of questioning strictly 2 questions about the c is he didn't know
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that we would be doing all the stuff while at them. so what, what is the problem is to thought about what he thinks ah, yeah he, i think that might be part of it. i don't think he wants. i think he wants to keep the focus for us as investigator, simply on the 9, the 9 deaths. because it's a sensitive question, very sensitive grisham. um it's got some sensitive elements to it for sure. but we could talk, and if i don't feel comfortable asking, answering a question that i won't answer ah, the following morning we make one final attempt at a crime scene. ah, in east of can't go to russian state local,
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i foldable and secure the stable, which has been proof, not the case. did you say? well, that is no longer there a day when it's 60 now because it's a so phone. if i can't, if i need to shouldn't need to pick the order as soon as their muslim flagship or football and yelling me when you both used to lunchroom wounded cookie. probably screamed like, leaving them also who recruiting a career? why did you decide on sasha? just sanction country a section of crystal because you want to change the behavior of government person. why that hasn't happened. actual test infection with the atmosphere has become even more frosty overnight.
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so anyway, i apologize they, they told me not to ride with you guys and everybody's scared that i don't know. i thought we had some good dialogue yesterday with the police chief arrives gentlemen . hey, how are you this morning? we're good. you are now open today. we're going to be all very close here. so what i was going to do is keep the media here in the parking lot because stay warm, boring if we're gonna be so you'll be able to see us doing our work from here. it takes investigators only a few minutes to complete their mission with a few in thunder bay that the re investigation of these cases will produce results
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. ah, for her part, lena continues to move heaven and earth to find the truth about her murdered niece . in my beautiful my beautiful name once a year, every year she gathers the family outside the house where her niece died. i need to line in. i think, i think with this is all that i have to keep alive the memory of her dead nice a after years of denial in silence the grievances of 1st nations people. so finally being aired,
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demonstrators gather outside the prime minister's office in order was part of the building. as is an indigenous years leading the way to meeting with to recognize the non indigenous folks that are supporting as of stand by here with andy minister training is when you're feeling guilty. it's systemic and reckless discrimination against 1st nation children. you cough up, you pay up and you say, sorry, ah, i want to say how inspired i am to see young indigenous standing up their allies and the women walking and brown and telling canada that there is
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a better way forward in that way is respecting the land and respecting the treaties and respecting the people i am honored to with. thank you. so the charlie angus is one of the only politicians in canada to defend the rights of 1st nations peoples. more than 20 years. he has been present at every battle. his activism was triggered by events to residential schools. i'm only like a member of parliament. these youngsters want canada to acknowledge its role in the darker side of its history. ah, and finally break the taboos of colonization. i was almost 40 years old before ever stepped foot on reserve when i was elected my region, is that some of the poorest 1st nations communities,
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anywhere. and i remember saying when i 1st landed in this community, it was just, it looked like a prisoner of war. and i said, what did the other member of parliament say when he came here? and they laughed, they said the member of parliament came to us. we had to find him. how can that be my country like canada? mm hm. did you bring them? i think that's canada. we think we know our history. we think we know our neighbors. and yet, just beside a big center, there will be a reserve where there's no clean water since 2013 charlie angus has been fighting alongside the victims of st. ends. were children were tortured in the electric chair. yeah. unlike other victims of residential schools, they have received no financial reparations with the abuse. they suffered legal
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proceedings have been rumbling on for years and to become a symbol of a national scandal. these are all from the police investigations that were done at saint ann's report. the interview with the police officer was there use of an electric chair to administer shocks to children who were tied in the chair. yes, there were consistent reports of the electric chair. some reports suggested it was used for entertainment. there were beatings, children forced heat, thrown vomit. yes. numerous people edge alleged that it affected them was their homosexual rape? yes. had her sexual rate. yes. it's like a horror movie. it goes on and on and on. and on. when the case came to court, the canadian government adopted an odd position. it refused to handle for elegance . victims no longer have access to their own testimony. it will take years for them
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to recover it. all the government was forced to turn over those documents. but then they blacked out the names of many of the perpetrators. what we got back was page after page after page of empty documents, the government blacked out almost all the evidence for them. the documents weren't useful to many of the worst criminals got away. the bishop's got away. ah, the ones who'd done most of the damage never got charged. ah . okay. i got to go i used to think they were trying to hide somebody. i thought there was some bishop very important i got what they're protecting is they're protecting the
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government of canada from having to pay its obligations. ah, now they're facing in canada. billions of dollars for this generation of indigenous children who are being taken away from their families losing the case against maintenance might bring to light other scandals and cost the state. dear, i welcome to ontario. i left the flowers. the ones who need flowers got snow in parliament session is about to begin. and i'm going to be asking to find the government in contempt of parliament, florida for falsifying informations. 2
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years earlier, the emp grilled, a prime minister to them on the matter of evidence being concealed by the gover generations. all remember for timmins james bay, children at saint and residential school suffered nightmarish levels of abuse, torture and child rape. and yet the office of the attorney general suppressed thousands of pages of police evidence that identified those perpetrators. and in doing so, they had cases thrown out and undermine the hearing. and now that the justice department has been forced to turn over those documents the claimant's inadmissible . unless the survivor finds a witness to verify these atrocities, to the prime minister, enough, the survivors, the st and his are better will he instruct his garment to end this obstruction of justice against the surviving or saint as wants and far off, honorable prime minister. the ills done to indigenous people over decades and centuries of colonialism in this country are shameful and r thing that we need to
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learn from and move forward on that includes respecting the rights of indigenous peoples now in all their different aspects. and that's why we're working with survivors lurked working with communities to ensure that we can move forward in a way that is fully respectful of all their rights as we get a get to the bottom of this up, understand their history and make reparations in the right way moving forward. ah, despite the prime minister's promises, ah, the canadian government has adopted a new strategy and gone on the attack. ah, they will go to any lengths to unsettled their opponents. over $3000000.00 are being spent on court costs. ah, the government will, the preferred seems to side with the perpetrators,
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and they're telling the public that they, with the side, with the latest act of this cynical approach is to prosecute the victims lawyer. ah, said bruning is represented the st ends plaintiffs for 10 years. as a volunteer on this occasion, it is her clients who will be supporting her in a toronto courtroom with like edmund. they have come from all over ontario for the trial in
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oh, are you my friend after to see us? oh, i never let it keeps you keep moving on to my brain with recorded point. in the 1st case of its kind, why the lawyer is accused of slandering the court. ah, the potential $25000.00 fund would force her to withdraw her commitment to the victim's cause. ah, even after a short hearing the judge rules in her favor, thanks to the survivors of saint dan's residential school, a whole people has just won its 1st battle. and with it some kind of revenge on
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history. and the philosophy which they said was to kill the indian and the child, which meant took them from their family and their land. they would cease to be indian people. but what they did was they created generations of damaged people, but never stop being indian people. ah, we are not free. we are prisoners of canada. in 2020, i apologize, apologies. but the reality is, i still have my vin number i will continue to fight until they say no more. and then act no more reserve
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