On August 9 2016, 22 year-old Colten Boushie, a Nēhiyaw/Cree of Red Pheasant First Nation, was shot and killed on a farm property near Biggar, Saskatchewan.

The incident has drawn national attention to the longstanding crisis of racism against Indigenous peoples in rural Saskatchewan and beyond, and has stirred immense controversy and racial tension. The Boushie family needs your help.

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Please help us achieve #JusticeForColten by signing this petition, then spreading the word today.
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To: Hon. Gordon Wyant, Q.C., Minister of Justice and Attorney General, and Bob Paulson, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Position Statement: We, the Indigenous citizens of the Battlefords, Treaty No. Six, and throughout Canada, together with members of non-Indigenous community, petition the Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice ("Ministry") to appoint a prosecutor from outside the Province of Saskatchewan to prosecute the matter of R v Gerald Stanley.  We further petition the RCMP to appoint investigators from outside the Province of Saskatchewan to head the investigation into the matter of R v Gerald Stanley.

The Ministry and the RCMP have lost our trust. We believe that, unless an outside prosecutor and investigator are installed, the Inherent rights to health, peace and good will as promised in Treaty No. Six will be irrevocably compromised. In order for our trust in the Ministry and the RCMP to be restored, a comprehensive investigation and rigorous prosecution must occur on the R v Gerald Stanley matter.

We demand that the Ministry appoint a prosecutor from outside Saskatchewan to prosecute R v Gerald Stanley, and that the RCMP appoints a lead investigator from outside Saskatchewan to investigate R v Gerald Stanley.  This is the only way to satisfy the public interest of getting at the truth in R v Gerald Stanley.

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For more information on the Colten Boushie case:

GLOBE AND MAIL ― The night Colten Boushie died: What family and police files say about his last day, and what came after (front page, October 21, 2016)

CBC NEWS ― Family devastated after Colten Boushie shot and killed on farm near Biggar, Sask. (August 11, 2016)

CBC NEWS ― 'The pain just doesn't stop': Colten Boushie's family struggles to cope with his death (October 23, 2016)