Originally released as a video on July 1st, 2017 to bring awareness to the oft overlooked fact that Canada's 150th year is subversively a celebration of Empirical occupation and forced genocide of the Indigenous tribes who inhabited these lands before European colonial conquest.

Get behind the flag, folks. Nothing to see here. Enjoy the fireworks.

See hear: youtu.be/NNOAvaT7tnY

On June 2nd, 2015, the final summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) said Canada is guilty of cultural genocide against Indigenous Peoples. Sadly, many Canadians balked at this summary and rejected the findings.

On June 3rd, 2019, the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) drew a conclusion "on the responsibility of Canada as a state for genocide under international law,” explaining that “the definition of genocide in international law, as it stands, encompasses the past and current actions and omissions of Canada towards Indigenous Peoples.

“Targeting victims in a gender-oriented manner destroys the very foundations of the group as a social unit and leaves long-lasting scars within a group’s social fabric. It is inherent to its destruction,” the report continues.

“Unlike the traditional paradigms of genocide, such as the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and the Rwandan Genocide… colonial destruction of Indigenous peoples has taken place insidiously and over centuries.”

On June 16, 2019, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Office called for the Canadian government to open a national probe into the MMIWG Inquiry's genocide claim.

"The national inquiry found reasons to believe that Canada's past and present policies, omissions and actions amount to genocide, under international law," UN spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani wrote in an email statement.

LINKS:

TRC: www.trc.ca

MMIWG Final Report: www.mmiwg-ffada.ca

UN Human Rights Office calls for examination of MMIWG inquiry's genocide claim (CBC News): www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stefanovich-un-national-inquiry-genocide-response-1.5174855