What I do know is that there is a movement in the global south that is looking to Canada. However, in other ways, they are more advanced than Canada in providing protection on the basis of rights to indigenous women and girls.
I don't think we have had an inclusionary process in this country that recognizes indigenous women as rights holders. That was affirmed in the final report of the national inquiry, and we need to continue to support this. What do those rights look like for indigenous women and their families? It is certainly not necessarily what's presented, because there hasn't been an opportunity to speak with us because our voices have been silenced.
Creating opportunities to hear from indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse relatives is really important in the red dress movement, but more importantly in how we live in civil society.
One of the things we have often forgotten or misplaced is that as result of the genocidal policies of government, indigenous women are misplaced, are internally displaced persons under the meaning of the UN convention on refugees. What does that look like? How do we deal with that in the long term?