Again, you've raised a really important issue. The RCMP not only failed to protect indigenous women and girls from violence, but they failed miserably to investigate or even open up files. We know that from the B.C. inquiry into missing women. We know this from the national inquiry. We know that internally, they sexually assault and abuse their own female officers. They're not stepping up to protect indigenous women and girls.
On the other hand, they criminalize them, surveil them, physically assault them and arrest and charge them for peacefully protecting their lands and waters, for peacefully protecting their own territories. They're unarmed. The police come in militarized. The fact that they have authorized themselves to use lethal overwatch on unarmed indigenous women and girls is something the whole world has seen and has spoken out about, such as the UN and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Canada uses the RCMP and other police forces in different provinces as the enforcers of their genocidal policies—extraction and land at all costs. The RCMP does so willingly and, sometimes, independently of what governments have to say. They're a real loose cannon that we have to deal with. Again, however, it's not just them. The RCMP in Winnipeg is one of the worst police forces in the country. There's the OPP, the SQ—you name it, we have a huge problem—and they're all involved in some way in criminalizing, brutalizing and assaulting indigenous women and girls, especially in land defence situations.