Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her)
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(5/5) Enough with the delays, and enough with the support for genocide. This government must pass Bill S-2 as amended before the House adjourns next week.
(4/5) When it comes to legislation that helps big business, Carney’s Liberals have repeatedly bulldozed the parliamentary process to get what they want. Yet when it comes to upholding Indigenous people’s rights, they’re pulling out every delay tactic in the book.
(3/5) This cutoff is a sexist, racist clause that denies status to countless Indigenous people, depriving them of their Indigeneity and contributing to the ongoing genocide of Indigenous people in Canada.
(2/5) Senator Prosper’s amendments to Bill S-2 would end the second generation cutoff, by which after two generations of First Nations parenting with a non-status person, their children’s status is denied under the Indian Act.
While Carney's Liberal government continues to fail to meet the moment, instead choosing to kowtow to corporate billionaires by cutting climate protections - Manitobans are stuck paying for the increasing cost of damage caused by the climate crisis. (2/2)
Yesterday I joined Senator PJ Prosper and Vice President of Justice for Girls Zoe Craig-Sparrow, echoing calls by First Nations leaders on the Liberal government to end the second-generation cutoff and pass Bill S-2 as amended before summer adjournment. (1/5)
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This week has been a stark reminder that when we sit idly by as the climate crisis escalates, our neighbours' basements fill with sewage, community infrastructure is damaged, tennis bail sized hail falls, and thousands face days-long hydro outages. (1/2)
“It's unfortunate the senators voted it down…Residential school denialism continues to intensify and this Liberal government continues to turn a blind eye to the rising dangers and hate that are being perpetrated” said Gazan.
Inuit leaders and Indigenous scholars are disappointed the Senate shot down an amendment to Bill C-9 aiming to criminalize residential school denialism. They argue Holocaust denialism is criminalized,...
