e-3080 (Health)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- Coerced and forced sterilization is in contravention of Canadian Human Rights legislation as it denies women of their basic human right to have children.
- The widespread practice of coerced and forced sterilization of Indigenous women has been occurring across Canada since the 1930s;
- There is minimal awareness of the issue of coerced and forced sterilization of Indigenous women among health care providers, the general public and Indigenous women.
- The 2017 report written by Dr. Judith Bartlett and Dr. Yvonne Boyer - External Review: Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women - highlighted that the issue persists in Canada;
- Coerced and forced sterilization of Indigenous women has not been addressed in Canadian public policy although the practice is clearly unlawful under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
- There is no national health policy to stop the heinous act of coerced and forced sterilization of Indigenous women and this needs to be changed to protect these women; and
- In December 2018, the United Nations Committee Against Torture officially recognized that sterilizing Indigenous women without consent is a form of torture, and called on Canada to take action.
- Open for signature
- January 25, 2021, at 4:27 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- May 25, 2021, at 4:27 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Jennifer O'Connell
(Pickering—Uxbridge)
June 22, 2021 (Petition No. 432-01220)