Speech: Indigenous Women in Canadian Prisons

“I am no authority on the social roots of Indigenous incarceration. I do not pretend to know the horror that our colleague has witnessed. As deeply as her stories touch me, I am aware that I cannot know what separation from my children feels like. I cannot know the sounds and smells of a single segregation cell. Even fragments of these experiences are impossible to imagine. And yet these are just moments in a horrific journey that for some women lasts years, even decades.”

Listen to Senator Omidvar’s remarks in their entirety below: