The optic of the Nicole Hoar case further reinforced the systemic racism the indigenous communities across Canada have witnessed for decades within media and law enforcement. It took the death of Nicole Hoar, a 25 year old white girl last seen hitch-hiking on June 21st, 2002 to ignite media frenzy and galvanize efforts within the RCMP. Highway of Tears drives this point home with a slick heart-felt montage of women, à la America’s Most Wanted of the missing and murdered victims whose remains dot that infamous corridor. These atrocities drew very little ink from mainstream media and even less attention within the RCMP ranks. With aboriginal women experiencing 3 to 5 times more violence than non-aboriginal women, it was no surprise that 582 First Nations women have been reported missing or murdered across Canada. Reference to the 2013 Human Rights Watch Report stating the failure of The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“RCMP”) in Northern B.C. to protect aboriginal women was the first salvo. With the Highway of Tears serving as the nucleus of a much larger systemic problem, we are taken on a tragic ride-a-long that investigates the treatment and mistreatment of the First Nations population since colonization by delving into a contentious societal narrative that continually fails the most vulnerable seeking social justice and equality in Canada.ĭirector, Matt Smiley front loads Highway of Tears by offering irrefutable fact-based statistics that sets an uneasy tone for what’s to come. Indian residential schools, negative stereotypes, systemic and socio-economic suppression, mistreatment by authorities, generational poverty and domestic violence have all played a part in allowing this forty year atrocity to fester. But, this story cuts much much deeper than that.
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Highway 16, the 724 kilometre stretch between Prince George and Prince Rupert has become a killing field for mostly young First Nations women over the last 40 years.ĭubbed the Highway of Tears, this unforgiving commuter corridor became a serial killer’s playground as vulnerable young women with limited access to social services gambled their lives each time they hitch-hiked. Four hundred and sixty-five miles due north lies Prince George, the fourth largest city in the province of British Columbia and the gateway to the north. For a province so rich in natural resources, breathtaking vistas and clearly anointed with the trappings of a first world pedigree, all is not well in lotus land. As impressive as that is, Vancouver took top honours as the most livable city in North America. The 2014 survey has Vancouver ranked fifth globally after Vienna, Zurich, Auckland and Munich. Mercer Consulting issued their annual Quality of Living Survey which ranks the top cities in the world. Once a whore, always a whore.” – Former Judge David William Ramsey
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