Canada Can't Hide Genocide: Indigenous Day of Action, June 24

Demand that Canada sign and implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Demand justice for over  520 missing and murdered Indigenous women 
End the criminalization of Indigenous resistance: respect Aboriginal land title       
Stop Canada from extinguishing Aboriginal and Treaty rights - stop the HST   Stop the tar sands - a violation of Aboriginal and Treaty rights, and the most destructive industrial project on earth
           
We are taking to the streets in Toronto to tell the world about Canada's violations of Indigenous rights and to demand immediate action.

     June 24th, 11 am
     March start point:  Queen's Park, South Lawn

When the G8/G20 comes to Canada in June let's tell the world the real story about Canada's record on Indigenous rights: 

• Canada is continuing its policy of assimilation and extinguishment of Aboriginal rights, title, and Treaty rights. Canada's collusion with Ontario to bring in a new 'Harmonized Sales Tax' is only the latest unilateral extinguishment of Aboriginal and treaty rights

• Canada is the only country still opposing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; the other three countries opposed to it have changed their vote or are reconsidering. We recognize the importance of the UN Declaration in protecting the rights of Indigenous peoples in Canada as well as the rest of the world"

• Canada continues to criminalize Indigenous activists who stand up for Aboriginal and treaty rights - even though these rights have been affirmed by the Canadian constitution and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

• Canada's policies of dispossession and control continue to create extreme poverty and social distress for Indigenous Nations across Canada. 

• Canada's resource economy is based on the exploitation of Indigenous lands. Industrial gigaprojects like the tar sands threaten the health of communities, culture and the land.