As Canada. prepares to sit down for its last meal, Bob Dylan is singing in the background, “The Masters of War”. “Come on you masters of war, you that build the big guns, you that build the death planes, you that hide behind the walls, you that sit behind desks. I just want you to know that I can see through your masks”.
Sego ki’akwehgo
This is the last supper of the artificial entity of Canada. Thank you for being with us and for showing your support.
We are here for a very important and, sadly, tragic announcement which it is our duty to share with you.
Despite what McGill has been stating publicly since the beginning of this investigation in a denialist attempt to hide their history of criminal experiments and abuse against our people, we have been informed that undeniable evidence of human remains has now been discovered. In fact, McGill and the SQI have commissioned this report themselves, so they should be the ones sharing these tragic findings with the public. They said they were committed to transparency, but they are not.
In one area near the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University, where the infamous medical experiments known as MK-Ultra took place, investigations using three separate remote-sensing technologies have finally been completed. We have received a report combining these results that states that, quote, “The combination of three separate lines of evidence supports the presence of human remains” near the Allan Memorial Institute.
These three technologies included Ground Penetrating Radar, three teams of Historic Human Remains Detection Dogs, and, most recently, the use of the S4 Subterra Grey Probe — which was designed specifically to detect human burials.
The results of all three of those techniques support the presence of human remains on the site that survivors and community members like us have been trying to protect for four years.
McGill says that absence of evidence is evidence of absence. What we say — and what the experts say — is that the presence of evidence is evidence of presence.
Apart from this zone, several other zones of concern have been identified on the site, including other targets where dogs alerted and worrisome results from ground penetrating radar reports, which all warrant further investigation.
This morning, we sent an official letter to assistant chief coroner Géhane Kamel notifying her office of these tragic findings and requesting their intervention to protect and properly investigate the death of the person, or their remains, in this unmarked burial that was detected on the site of the Allan Memorial Institute.
We reached out to the coroner, first, because the law requires people to inform the coroner of the presence of human remains, quote, “where it appears that the death has occurred as a result of negligence or in obscure or violent circumstances”. Second, we chose to contact coroner Géhane Kamel specifically because of her work investigating the role of systemic racism in the death of Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman, at the Joliette hospital. We feel that in this important work coroner Kamel demonstrated a strong sensitivity and respect for Indigenous concerns and traditional protocols.
We think that this represents an unprecedented opportunity to find new and innovative pathways toward reconciliation through a joint investigation including both the coroner’s office and Mohawk experts. We thus asked the coroner to work with Indigenous experts, a Mohawk medical pathologist and a Mohawk archaeologist, alongside cultural monitors, to ensure a credible, transparent and impartial investigation — one that can help our community find the truth about what happened to us at the Royal Victoria and at McGill.
The reason why it is so urgent right now to protect and investigate this area is because McGill and the SQI [Quebec Department of Infrastructures] have already announced their intention to excavate the zone the same way they did where the dogs first identified the scent of human remains, back in June 2023 in front of the Hersey Pavilion.
You can see what’s happening in front of that building right now: A massive construction project is going on full blown for McGill’s New Vic Project, using $650 million dollars of Quebec taxpayers’ money to privatize land that they promised would serve for health care in perpetuity. Historic Human Remains Detection Dogs identified the scent of human remains in that area in 2023, and disturbing discoveries were made when they started digging there. Two fragments of a pair of children’s shoes from the beginning of the 20th century. A layer that had a horrible smell like something decomposing. And many bones. But instead of listening to the recommendations of the archaeologists we had jointly approved, McGill and the SQI decided to fire them when they started asking for forensic precaution to preserve that evidence. Instead of sifting the soil immediately like they were supposed to as explicitly indicated in the legally binding settlement agreement, McGill and SQI let the piles of soil rot under the sun and the rain for three months, before putting the soil in trucks to move it out of the way of their development project. They ended up sifting the piles with a huge mechanical machine used for mining, and which is never used in archaeology. Then they told us the hundreds of bone fragments they found there were too small to identify. How is that for a university teaching archeology and supposed to value science? Despite their promises to do it, those bones were never tested in a lab. The case was closed. Our cultural monitors and archaeologists on the site, and many other experts we consulted, were adamant that the mistreatment of the evidence and the use of that big machine destroyed the very fragile bones in the soil.
Desecration of human remains is a crime. And it’s still a crime if its an Indigenous person, by the way. We reported McGill and the SQI’s mistreatment to the Superior Court and we won that case. The Judge saw that they distorted the words of our agreement to fire the experts that we agreed upon. He ordered them to listen to the experts’ recommendations. But they appealed the decision, and it was overturned for procedural reasons that had nothing to do with what actually happened. The colonial court system is not our system. Our system seeks to right any wrongs and to understand one another.
Because the colonial legal system is incapable of protecting our rights, despite all the talk about reconciliation and the United Nations Declaration, we have no choice but to take the matter into our own hands, and to request the coroner to use her powers and expertise, and to work with our communities to implement a thorough, respectful and honest investigation. Our lost children and loved ones can’t wait any longer. They ask us to find them. Because we can’t afford to lose them again the way we did on the New Vic site, we will be keeping constant vigil and monitoring the site to make sure it is not destroyed until the area is secured for a proper investigation. We also invite the public to report any suspicious activity to us.
You can join a collective of people who have been supporting and working with us. Contact the “Kahnistensera solidarity collective”.
We will not let this genocide, and its coverup, continue. Everyone should have the right to live and rest in peace.
Bob Dylan continues the message, “I hope that you die and your death will come soon. They will bury your casket in the pale afternoon. I will watch while you are lowered into your death bed. I will stand over you until you are dead.”
nia’wen tanon o:nen
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