The Canadian government says it is urgently trying to end the forced sterilization of Indigenous women, describing the practice as a human rights violation and a prosecutable offense. Yet police say they will not pursue a criminal investigation into a recent case in which a doctor apologized for his “unprofessional conduct” in sterilizing an Inuit woman.
In July, The Associated Press reported on the case of an Inuit woman in Yellowknife who had surgery in 2019 aimed at relieving her abdominal pain. The obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Andrew Kotaska, did not have the woman’s consent to sterilize her, and he did so over the objections of other medical personnel in the operating room. She is now suing him.
“This is a pivotal case for Canada because it shows that forced sterilization is still happening,” said Dr. Unjali Malhotra, of the First Nations Health Authority in British Columbia. “It’s time that it be treated as a crime.”
I don’t want to be controversial here, but if someone is forcibly destroying the internal organs of someone else without their knowledge or consent then maybe we should, and again I don’t wanna overstep my bounds on this nuanced and multifaceted issue here but my instinct is that maybe we should, I don’t know, maybe make them stop doing that. If that makes me a “no secretly wrecking someone else’s innards” extremist then I guess I’ll have to live with that.
woah dude, as a centrist this is why I vote far right, you woke leftists are taking things too far.
Trying to end forced sterilization? Why has it not ended already?
But the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they would not be investigating Kotaska, because the woman hasn’t filed a criminal complaint.
As if there aren’t ample reasons for an indigenous woman to not trust the RCMP to protect her.
But the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they would not be investigating Kotaska, because the woman hasn’t filed a criminal complaint.
I’m a true crime fan, and The RCMP always seem to crop up in “mystery” type shows. It usually turns out that they’ve been lazy as fuck, only showed up to the crime scene for 15 minutes or so, and wrote down some bullshit excuse before leaving.
Why could that possibly be?
(Hint: The answer is in the article you didn’t continue reading the moment you found an excuse for inaction.)
Canada WTF
I know the word nazi gets thrown around a lot these days but this is some actual nazi type shit trying to stamp out an entire race. WTF indeed.
There’s a long history of the RCMP not caring (at best) about Indigenous people
The primary reason for our horsey police is to detain and control the indigenous population. They fill the rest of their working hours writing speeding tickets, arresting addicts, and pretending to fulfill the social contract.
Police declined to investigate the forced sterilization of a native? Color me surprised
Police declined to investigate because there was no criminal complaint filed by the victim.
The victim won’t file a complaint because of the history of the indigenous peoples history with the RMCP.
AFAIK in the US, the police usually reach out to victims and ask if they would like to press charges. Does this not happen in Canada? It would probably make victims more motivated to file reports.
Probably not . Definitely not indigenous people because the police don’t give a fuck about them . I know people that where attacked by anti LGBTQ people at a recent protest and the police did nothing.
Yes they do reach out.
You fail to see the full history of RCMP and the indigenous peoples.
Canada created the North-West Mounted Police shortly after the west was bought specifically to displace natives and force them into reserves, seperate children from families.
The North-West Mounted Police would later become the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. So now you have this same paramilitary group that harmed you as the main Police force.
So the natives tend to not speak with Police on matters and when they do their issues tend to be ignored, especially in the west where first nation hatred is very strong.
There’s also all those missing indigenous women that police barely look into . There’s probably a serial killer but nothing is being done .
Most of them are indigenous against indigenous violence. RCMP are basically unable to investigate if they wanted to, but it’s Alberta so they probably don’t want to.
Unfortunately, reserves and First Nation culture is extreamly patriarchal where abuses towards women are very common. My family originally left the reserves because of that exact reason.
The police are 100% useless in Canada they exist just to harrass the public . Any real crimes they dont bother showing up .
Sounds familiar.
Oof, and with Truth and Reconciliation Day tomorrow.
Wearing an orange shirt is the type of change we need
Newsflash: Canada doesn’t give 2 flying fucks about its Indigenous population. We tried to kill them all off in the 20th century remember?
The only reason people favourably view Canada is because USA’s social and political climate is a dumpster fire in comparison. It’s legit depressing to live there.
Could you explain or provide an example?
AFAIK the malicious genocides happened in the 18th century with forced integration and relocations happening in the 19th and 20th century.
There was the settler genocide of the Beothuk peoples from loss of access to food and foreign illness in the 19th century though. Although that wasn’t trying to kill them.
There was the culture genocides of the residential schools but again, that isn’t an example of trying to kill them all off.
Between this and the euthanasia laws being deliberately abused by doctors pushing it onto patients, can we declare Canada genocidal yet?
No.
This is an example of a bad Doctor. Not bad medical practices in Canada.
MAiD isn’t being forced on anyone. Don’t believe the far right smear champaign.
https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867 - It’s not a smear campaign, it’s a widely documented phenomenon that the poor are being denied disability payments and proper healthcare, and being pushing into the suicide option.
Hell they even made an ad encouraging people to kill themselves which ran on Youtube, but was pulled for massive dislikes.
You just linked a far right news source and expect me to take you seriously?
There have been two alleged cases where a disabled person was “suggested” MAiD. One of the was a lie and the other was done by veterans affairs who has no authority to prescribe such a procedure.
I’m not supporting or disputing OPs assertion but just wanted to point out that AP is nowhere close to being a far-right news source.
I’d take them and Reuters over anything else any day of the week.
The AP isn’t a “far right new source”.
Sure it isn’t.
When you make disingenuous claims based on your feelings only your side of any given argument loses power. Do with that what you will, but you’re helping no one.
Far right nutter.
Associated Press is a Far Right News Source? Since fucking when?
Is it being suggested to people who don’t have a terminal disease?
Hopefully eventually it will be.
And the mask comes off.
Everyone should have access to MAiD just like everyone has access to other means of Healthcare.
Honestly everything the Nazi’s did, the Commonwealth of the United Kingdom did first the Nazis just scaled it up big time. Modern concentration camps, British. The idea of The Final Solution, Canadian. Forced sterilization and eugenics, born in Europe but expanded upon by the United States. At least Canada is trying to find justice for the victims of it’s past. Even if it’s obviously failing. Is Canada genocidal now, no. We’re they, absolutely. Are they do enough to reconcile, not even close.
“…the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they would not be investigating Kotaska, because the woman hasn’t filed a criminal complaint”
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White doing the right thing for once in their lives challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
One can disagree to have a life-saving surgery based on religious beliefs, but sometimes, sometimes, it’s just right to castrate a person for no reason.
I mean better than what they did before… In Retrospektive it was a pretty bad idea to burry indigenous children on school grounds wasn’t it?
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