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From YouTube: FEB 16 2023 Statements Kelli Paddon
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
4th Session
42nd Parliament
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The
downtown
east
side,
we're
filled
with
family
friends
and
Community
Advocates,
dressed
in
red
and
holding
signs
commemorating
their
loved
ones.
One
woman
was
there
to
honor,
64
friends
and
loved
ones
that
are
missing
or
who
have
been
murdered.
No
one
should
have
to
mourn
that
many
loved
ones
in
such
a
tragic
way,
first
held
in
1992
the
risk
to
respond
to
the
murder
of
a
woman
on
Vancouver's
Powell
Street.
The
annual
Women's
Memorial
March
takes
place
in
the
downtown
East
Side
neighborhood
on
the
unseated
territory
of
the
Coast
Salish
people.
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This
past
Tuesday
February
14th,
hundreds
of
people
marched
to
honor,
missing
and
murdered
indigenous
women,
girls,
trans
and
two-spirit
people
from
the
downtown
east
side
and
across
British
Columbia.
The
March
included
speeches
and
ended
with
a
community
meal
red
has
been
the
representative
color
of
missing
and
murdered
indigenous
women.
Since
2010,
when
metis
artist,
Jamie
black
began
the
red
dress
project
as
an
art
installation,
which
was
first
shown
at
the
University
of
Winnipeg
in
2011..
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This
installation
is
now
a
permanent
exhibit
at
the
Canadian
Museum
of
Human
Rights
and
is
marked
annually
with
red
dress
Day
on
May
5th,
to
remind
us
of
the
people
in
our
communities
who
have
been
taken
as
parliamentary
secretary
for
gender
Equity
I
recognize
that
there
is
much
much
more
to
do.
The
urgency
of
this
issue
and
the
need
for
progress
on
reconciliation
and
meaningful
action
is
woven
throughout
everything.
We
do.
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We
know
that
indigenous
women,
girls
and
2s
lgbtq
plus
people
are
disproportionately
vulnerable
to
gender-based
violence
due
to
colonialism,
discrimination,
racism
and
other
forms
of
systemic
oppression.
I
want
to
take
this
opportunity
to
honor
the
people
whose
lives
have
been
stolen,
their
families
and
the
survivors.
Thank
you
to
The
Advocates,
community
members,
families
and
friends,
survivors
and
loved
ones.
We
stand
with
you
remembering
those
we
have
lost.