The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will blame Canada for “genocide” when it is released on Monday.

Launched in September 2016, the report will be made public during a ceremony in Gatineau, Quebec.

Chief Commissioner Marion Buller writes in the report that the laws and institutions of Canada have perpetuated the violations of Indigenous rights.

She adds that those violations “amount to nothing less than the deliberate, often covert campaign of genocide.”

“These truths force us to reconsider where the roots of violence lie, and in doing so, to reconsider the solutions,” Buller explains.

We are the Grandmothers’ Circle of Canada’s historic first National Inquiry. Through this National Inquiry, Canada’s hidden history is exposed and must no longer be ignored.

1/4 pic.twitter.com/wtoaotB2qC — Sacred MMIWG / FFADA sacrées (@sacredmmiwg) May 31, 2019

“I hope that knowing these truths will contribute to a better understanding of the real lives of Indigenous people and the violations of their human and Indigenous rights when they were targeted for violence.”

Buller adds: “This is not what Canada is supposed to be about,” she says. “It is not what it purports to stand for.”

The findings of the federally funded inquiry are contained within a document focusing on legal issues such as policing and the need to effectively respond to human trafficking cases, sexual exploitation and violence, including in the sex industry.

It also stresses the need to ensure that failures in policing, health services and child welfare are not brushed off as failures of the past.

“The reality is that many of the people who testified before the national inquiry have lived through, and continue to heal from, these policies,” the report explains.

“Many more people are in current conflict with them.”

With files from the Canadian Press