Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people continue to go missing and be murdered along British Columbia’s Highway 16—known as the Highway of Tears. Despite decades of community outcry and official inquiries, this remote stretch remains dangerously underserved, lacking cell service, transit, lighting, and emergency infrastructure. 

The funding is there, yet the provincial and federal governments have failed to act. This lack of action, in the face of a  national inquiry into MMIWGs and the over two hundred recommendations that followed in 2019 is, according to the inquiry itself, evidence of continuined participation in an ongoing genocide against indigenous women and girls in Canada. 

“Not One More” is not just a slogan—it’s a call to action. We refuse to accept any more stolen lives, silenced voices, or abandoned investigations. As an indigenous woman from Prince George BC, I have experienced firsthand the blatant racism and violence indigenous women and girls face across Canada. I have lots friends to the Highway of Tears. Enough is enough. 

We demand the following actions from the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia:

1. Full cellular coverage across the entire Highway 16 corridor.

2. Reliable, public or Indigenous-run transit connecting rural communities.

3. Installation of lighting, surveillance, emergency call boxes, and safe rest areas.

4. Long-term funding and oversight led by Indigenous communities, not only government agencies.

These are essential protections. These are overdue. Every additional day of delay puts lives at risk.

Indigenous lives are not expendable. Not one more.