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We are all aware of the report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada — it labelled the treatment of these people as “genocide” by the Canadian government over the generations, and made a number of relatively bureaucratic recommendations to try to bring this travesty to a close.

And yet for the prime minister to accept the word means just that — this government, for all it minsters and words, is guilty of genocide and has failed to address the real issues with indigenous peoples.

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In this Comment Nation, Stephen LeDrew challenges Justin Trudeau to take action.