Abstract:
"In recent years, inquiry reports across
Canada have detailed the devastating
consequences of many of the policies and
decisions faced by First Nations, Métis and
Inuit. Each of these reports, whether issued
by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(2015), the Commission des droits de la
personne et de la jeunesse, the Viens Commission
(2019) or the National Inquiry into
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
and Girls (2019), has made various recommendations,
some of which specifically
target higher education institutions.
Despite these publications, a number of
tragic situations that are reported from
time to time in the media and on social
networks, show that there is still an imperative
to act in order to prevent history
from repeating itself. By way of example,
and never to be forgotten, let us recall the
intolerable conditions that led to the deaths
of Joyce Echaquan on September 28, 2020;
Raphael André on January 17, 2021; Elisapie
Pootoogook on November 12, 2021; and
the Manawan baby on April 4, 2022." -- AQPC
