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By Nina Green
As was documented earlier, the PPT Lead Prosecutor, Christa Big Canoe, whose licence to practice law was suspended at the time, and ‘expert witnesses’ Connie Walker and Tanya Talaga, deliberately failed to reveal to the PPT ‘judges’ at the 26 May 2026 hearing in Montreal that Justice Marion Buller’s finding of genocide at the 2019 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) Inquiry was subsequently proven to be wrong.
As was also documented earlier, the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is a kangaroo court which told the world it was holding its Montreal hearings to inquire into ‘Missing and disappeared Indigenous children and [nefarious] unmarked graves in Canada‘, but instead held 4 days of hearings in which no evidence at all was produced on that topic. Instead, irrelevant evidence on a myriad of topics was introduced, including irrelevant evidence on the finding of genocide by the MMIWG Inquiry.
The MMIWG Inquiry finding that Canada committed a genocide against Indigenous women was decisively disproven in October 2023 when a Statistics Canada report revealed that 86% of murders of Indigenous women, almost 9 out of 10, were committed by Indigenous men, a finding which should have been obvious to everyone before the spurious MMIWG Inquiry ever took place.
If there was a genocide involving murdered Indigenous women, it was a genocide against Indigenous women by Indigenous men.
Predictably, the Statistics Canada report received little news coverage at the time, and its finding that 86% of murdered Indigenous women were killed by Indigenous men was quickly buried because it conflicted with the Indigenous narrative in Canada about murdered Indigenous women.
Since the MMIWG Inquiry had nothing to do with the PPT’s stated purpose of inquiring into ‘Missing and disappeared Indigenous children and [nefarious] unmarked graves in Canada’, no evidence at all about the MMIWG Inquiry should have been placed before the ‘judges’ at the Tribunal hearings in Montreal by Lead Prosecutor Big Canoe and ‘witnesses’ Connie Walker and Tanya Talaga.
However since all three did discuss the MMIWG Inquiry at length at the Montreal hearing on 26 May 2026, the least Canadians could have expected of them was that they would have told the Tribunal ‘judges’ the truth — that a 2023 Statistics Canada report had proved that the 2019 MMIWG Inquiry’s finding of genocide by Canada against Indigenous women was false, and that in almost 9 out of 10 cases, Indigenous female murder victims had been killed by Indigenous men.
Instead of telling the Tribunal ‘judges’ the truth, Big Canoe, Walker and Talaga concealed the 2023 Statistics Canada report from the ‘judges’, and instead provided them with opinion pieces by Talaga in which she claimed Canada had committed a genocide against Indigenous women.
Was the deception about the MMIWG Inquiry by Big Canoe, Walker and Talaga effective?
That the deception about the MMIWG Inquiry by Big Canoe (who had been Lead Commission Counsel for the MMIWG Inquiry), Walker and Talaga was effective is evidenced by this question from Tribunal ‘judge’ Valmaine Toki of New Zealand, who is herself a lawyer, after the completion of Walker and Talaga’s ‘evidence’ about the MMIWG Inquiry.
Toki has a PhD in law, and was well aware during the hearings that evidence about the MMIWG Inquiry was completely irrelevant to an inquiry into ‘Missing and disappeared Indigenous children and [nefarious] unmarked graves in Canada’. She should have stopped Lead Prosecutor Big Canoe in her tracks, and refused to listen to any evidence on the topic. She didn’t do that, for reasons best left to Toki herself to explain.
Instead of objecting strenuously, as someone very familiar with legal procedure, to the introduction of egregiously irrelevant ‘evidence’ on a myriad of topics, Toki tried to normalize the introduction of completely irrelevant evidence by summarizing some of it, and then disingenuously asking Walker and Talaga how that irrelevant ‘evidence’ could be linked to the actual stated purpose of the Tribunal hearings — allegedly missing Indian residential school students and nefarious unmarked graves.
Toki phrased her question as follows:
[Valmaine Toki]
Thank you, Madam Prosecutor. Just a mihi to you both, two really strong indigenous women for your incredible work that you’re doing and that you’ll do into the future as well. So before I hand the talking stick over to my fellow distinguished judges to ask a question, Connie, you at the very beginning, you mentioned the idea of uncovering the truth of this country.
And then Tanya, you followed it up with talking about the importance of the fundamental right of education for our indigenous children. You then talk about the unacceptable rate of youth suicide for our indigenous young people. And in Aotearoa New Zealand, we have the same issue in terms of unacceptable indigenous suicide rates for our young men in that instance.
You then go on to talk about genocide being the common denominator with respect to those social statistics. And you talk about the Indian Act was primarily to get rid of the Indian. You mentioned or remind us of lovely Justice Marion Buller and her reference to genocide in her recent case.
So sort of remembering or thinking about those instances and given the disproportionate statistics for indigenous peoples and the genocide being the common denominator, I was wondering if you could link that to the death and disappearance of children while attending residential schools and institutions. [bolding added]
It’s clear Toki realized that nothing she and her fellow ‘judges’ had heard that morning was relevant to the stated purpose of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, and that she was trying to find a way to link the completely irrelevant evidence she and her fellow ‘judges’ had patiently sat through to the stated purpose of the Tribunal hearings.
Toki’s attempt to have Walker and Talaga connect the dots between the irrelevant ‘evidence’ they had provided during the morning session to the actual stated purpose of the Tribunal was completely unsuccessful. Talaga replied to Toki’s question at great length, but all she could come up with was further irrelevant ‘evidence’, which is unsurprising because, as everyone now knows, no one has ever been able to provide the name of a single missing Indian residential school child or identify a single nefarious unmarked grave connected to an Indian residential school. The stated purpose of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal was thus itself a hoax because everyone connected to the Tribunal already knew beforehand that no evidence was going to be introduced at the Tribunal hearings about missing and disappeared Indian residential school students and nefarious unmarked graves connected to Indian residential schools since there have never been any missing Indigenous children or nefarious unmarked graves to be inquired into. The Tribunal hearings were thus a deliberate hoax from the outset.
To return to the original question: Was the deliberate deception about the MMIWG Inquiry by Big Canoe, Walker and Talaga effective? Clearly, it was. The Tribunal ‘judges’ left the Montreal hearings thinking Justice Marion Buller’s finding that Canada had committed a genocide against Indigenous women was valid. Tribunal ‘judge’ Toki even called her ‘the lovely Marion Buller’ when she referred to Buller’s 2019 MMIWG Inquiry decision, a decision which has now been shown to be wrong, something Big Canoe, Walker and Talaga would obviously have been well aware of since they were personally so closely connected to the MMIWG Inquiry.
So yes, the Tribunal ‘judges’ were deceived by Big Canoe, Walker and Talaga at the 26 May 2026 hearing. They were deceived about the MMIWG Inquiry, and about everything else, but they were willing participants in the deception. Several of the Tribunal ‘judges’ are lawyers with distinguished legal backgrounds and credentials. They recognize irrelevant evidence when they see it, and they were thus fully aware that everything Big Canoe, Walker and Talaga were telling them was irrelevant to the stated purpose of the Tribunal — an inquiry into ‘Missing and disappeared Indigenous children and [nefarious] unmarked graves’ — but they willingly listened to completely irrelevant ‘evidence’. They made no effort whatever to stop irrelevant evidence from becoming part of the Tribunal record. It is thus obvious that they came to the Tribunal hearings with their minds made up. The ‘judges’ had decided in advance that Canada was guilty of genocide, and though genocide had nothing to do with the stated purpose of the Tribunal hearings, they were not going to let anything stand in the way of the preliminary verdict of a ‘continuing genocide‘ they delivered on 29 May 2026, and plan to formally deliver in their final decision on 30 September 2026.
Thanks for reading. For more from this author, read Did the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal deliberately deceive the Tribunal 'judges' and the public by leading evidence about the 2019 National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls?
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More delusion from feminist progressives. When will this group move to the paradise of North Korea.
I very much doubt the judges were deceived. They had their beliefs and the verdict before the trial even began, Nina herself calls it a "kangaroo court." Thanks for this article. Nina's piece clearly shows the ideological bias driving the court, disregarding, not even mentioning evidence that does not support their narrative. Of course, there was no defence presented. The tragedy is that nothing will change with respect to MMIWG - and might even become worse - if the Indigenous ideologues and their supporters continue to blame the wider society for everything tragic that happens to Indigenous people.