Inuit represent slightly more than 0.16 per cent of Quebec’s population but accounted for 2.45 per cent of provincial detainees during the year ending March 31, 2022
Mylène Jaccoud, a criminology professor at Université de Montréal who studies the criminalization of Indigenous people in Quebec, said that while non-Inuit Indigenous Peoples are overrepresented in provincial jails, there’s an “over, overrepresentation of Inuit.”
Jaccoud said the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement gave the Inuit a level of self-government. But that self-governing process isn’t as advanced in the North as it is in other Indigenous communities, such as the Cree territories, she said. A 2022 class-action lawsuit filed against the provincial government on behalf of more than 1,500 Inuit detainees alleges the rights of Inuit are systematically violated when they are transferred long distances from home.
Ilgun, who worked as a firefighter and paramedic for 15 years, said he was left with post-traumatic stress disorder after he was unable to save a relative who had suffered a serious injury. A colleague underwent similar trauma and took his own life, he said.
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