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Heiltsuk Nation Chief Marilyn Slett told the United Nations in Geneva this week that Canada is still operating with a policy of “legislated extinction” toward Indigenous people.
Slett spoke to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and told them that Canada has only completed two of the 231 recommendations that came out of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
“And more than half have not been started,” she told the committee on October 14.
As she spoke, Slett wore traditional regalia of the Heiltsuk Nation — located on the coast of British Columbia — including an apron gifted to her by her grandmother, a button blanket, and a cedar headpiece.
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