{"id":33351,"date":"2020-06-24T08:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=33351"},"modified":"2020-06-24T08:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:05:35","slug":"ford-walks-out-as-mamakwa-calls-for-action-to-stop-indigenous-deaths-at-thunder-bay-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/24\/ford-walks-out-as-mamakwa-calls-for-action-to-stop-indigenous-deaths-at-thunder-bay-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford walks out as Mamakwa calls for action to stop Indigenous deaths at Thunder Bay jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/pc8vcv1rtphb2te\/SolMamakwa06232020.mov?dl=0\">https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/pc8vcv1rtphb2te\/SolMamakwa06232020.mov?dl=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Doug Ford walked out during question period Tuesday as Kiiwetinoong MPP Sol Mamakwa called on him to take action to stop any further deaths of young Indigenous people at the Thunder Bay District Jail, after Mamakwa\u2019s nephew recently died at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe correctional system across Ontario is a factory that produces broken Indigenous people and dehumanizes our young men and women,\u201d said Mamakwa, the NDP Official Opposition\u2019s critic for Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation. \u201cThis includes my nephew Kevin. He died in June while he was in custody at the Thunder Bay District Jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mamakwa said nine people have died at the jail since 2002. Seven were Indigenous men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike Kevin these young people are our sons, fathers, and nephews,\u201d said Mamakwa. \u201cHow many more Indigenous people need to die at the Thunder Bay jail before the government takes action to solve this crisis?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ford walked out as Mamakwa stood to ask him the second part of his question: \u201cWhat does the premier plan to do so that no more families will see their child\u2019s body flown away from home for another autopsy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mamakwa and his family had a viewing of Kevin\u2019s body before it was flown to Toronto for the required coroner\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Human Rights Commissioner, Coroner\u2019s Inquests, the Grand Chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation, and Mamakwa\u2019s brother have all called for the jail to close. Mamakwa said that young Indigenous people do not belong in jails. They need support and they need their basic needs to be met.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve suffered years and even generations of trauma and extreme poverty,\u201d said Mamakwa. \u201cThey need access to proper education, access to their cultural teachings, access to clean running water, houses fit to live in, health care and mental health supports when they need it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system must change. It needs to address the underlying issues of colonialism that ripped children away from our families, and have brought us to where we are today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/pc8vcv1rtphb2te\/SolMamakwa06232020.mov?dl=0 &nbsp; Doug Ford walked out during question period Tuesday as Kiiwetinoong MPP Sol Mamakwa called on him to take action to stop any further deaths of young Indigenous people at the Thunder Bay District Jail, after Mamakwa\u2019s nephew recently died at the facility. \u201cThe correctional system across Ontario is a factory that produces broken &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 09:54:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33352,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33351\/revisions\/33352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}