PrimeTime Politics This Week
June 5, 2021
Watch this week’s highlights from CPAC’s flagship show, PrimeTime Politics, the source for political roundup and analysis of policy issues. Get an insider’s perspective from Ottawa featuring interviews and guest panels from the Hill. Thursday, June 3: Peter Van Dusen looks at the federal plan to end systemic racism and address violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals – the long-awaited response to the 2019 call for justice from the MMIWG National Inquiry. We hear from Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and Lynne Groulx, CEO of the Native Women’s Association of Canada. Also: a closer examination of Indigenous issues and the path to reconciliation with Brad Regehr (president of the Canadian Bar Association and grandson of a residential school survivor) and Mary-Ellen Turpel Lafond (University of British Columbia law professor, former judge, and director of the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre). Friday, June 4: MPs Jaime Battiste (Liberal), Jamie Schmale (Conservative) and Charlie Angus (NDP) discuss the prime minister's demand for the Catholic Church to take responsibility for its role in the residential schools tragedy. Former Alberta justice minister Jonathan Denis explains why he and several other Canadian lawyers have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the government for crimes against humanity, following the discovery of the remains of 215 indigenous children on the grounds of the Kamloops residential school. Tonda MacCharles (Toronto Star) and Ian Bailey (The Globe and Mail) look at the federal pathway outlined in the government's national action plan in response to the calls for justice from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
