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Here are five things to know about Ottawa-based lawyer Qajaq Robinson, who will be one of five commissioners on the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, the details of which were released Wednesday.
Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu said Wednesday commissioners will seek to understand the underlying causes of the disproportionate murder and missing persons rates among Canadian indigenous women — including racism introduced by colonialism, sexism, and misogyny.
1. Robinson represented Ojibwe musician Ian Campeau of the Juno Award-winning A Tribe Called Red and his family in a human rights complaint against the Nepean Redskins. Campeau wanted to change the club’s name because he considered the term “redskins” offensive.
Online trolls called Robinson’s client a “wagon burner” and threatened to do a tomahawk dance on Campeau’s front lawn, Nunatsiaq News reported, but Robinson said it was worth it because of the gratitude from residential school survivors who’d been bullied with the redskins slur and parents whose children would no longer have to hear it. The club dropped the name and logo in 2014, becoming the Nepean Eagles.
2. Robinson, a former Crown prosecutor in Nunavut, where she was raised in Igloolik by a teacher and a librarian, is taking a secondment from her job as an associate with Borden Ladner Gervais specializing in Aboriginal law, where she deals with cases such as land-claims agreements.
3. The president of Pauktuutit, an Inuit women’s organization, complained there was no Inuk named in a leaked short list of commissioners for the missing women inquiry last week, which included Robinson, who speaks fluent Inuktitut.
The group called on the government to appoint an Inuk commissioner at a press conference Wednesday. The Nunavut government said in a press release that “the appointment of a northerner to the commission is encouraging. However, this is a deeply sensitive issue, and Inuk representation on the commission would have provided balance to directly reflect the culture and experiences of our communities.”
4. Robinson’s husband, Kipanik Eegeesiak, according to a 2014 report by Nunatsiaq News, was at the time an RCMP officer working for the force’s parliamentary security detail.
5. Robinson is the vice-president of the Ottawa-based Tungasuvvingat Inuit, which serves the largest Inuit population south of the Arctic, offering front-line services to navigate urban life in the south and stay connected to their northern heritage.
6. Robinson travelled 18,000 kilometres over nine days in March facilitating consultations for a submission to the government by the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and Tungasuvvingat Inuit as the government was establishing the inquiry, the Globe and Mail reported.
— With files from Marie-Danielle Smith
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Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu said Wednesday commissioners will seek to understand the underlying causes of the disproportionate murder and missing persons rates among Canadian indigenous women — including racism introduced by colonialism, sexism, and misogyny.
1. Robinson represented Ojibwe musician Ian Campeau of the Juno Award-winning A Tribe Called Red and his family in a human rights complaint against the Nepean Redskins. Campeau wanted to change the club’s name because he considered the term “redskins” offensive.
Online trolls called Robinson’s client a “wagon burner” and threatened to do a tomahawk dance on Campeau’s front lawn, Nunatsiaq News reported, but Robinson said it was worth it because of the gratitude from residential school survivors who’d been bullied with the redskins slur and parents whose children would no longer have to hear it. The club dropped the name and logo in 2014, becoming the Nepean Eagles.
2. Robinson, a former Crown prosecutor in Nunavut, where she was raised in Igloolik by a teacher and a librarian, is taking a secondment from her job as an associate with Borden Ladner Gervais specializing in Aboriginal law, where she deals with cases such as land-claims agreements.
3. The president of Pauktuutit, an Inuit women’s organization, complained there was no Inuk named in a leaked short list of commissioners for the missing women inquiry last week, which included Robinson, who speaks fluent Inuktitut.
The group called on the government to appoint an Inuk commissioner at a press conference Wednesday. The Nunavut government said in a press release that “the appointment of a northerner to the commission is encouraging. However, this is a deeply sensitive issue, and Inuk representation on the commission would have provided balance to directly reflect the culture and experiences of our communities.”
4. Robinson’s husband, Kipanik Eegeesiak, according to a 2014 report by Nunatsiaq News, was at the time an RCMP officer working for the force’s parliamentary security detail.
5. Robinson is the vice-president of the Ottawa-based Tungasuvvingat Inuit, which serves the largest Inuit population south of the Arctic, offering front-line services to navigate urban life in the south and stay connected to their northern heritage.
6. Robinson travelled 18,000 kilometres over nine days in March facilitating consultations for a submission to the government by the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and Tungasuvvingat Inuit as the government was establishing the inquiry, the Globe and Mail reported.
— With files from Marie-Danielle Smith
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