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A far-left politician rolled out a tongue-twister of an identity acronym while claiming that transgender people were facing a genocide in Canada.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Member of Parliament Leah Gazan complained Wednesday about budget cuts she said would not stop the genocide of the \u201cMMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+\u201d community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhen the Budget was released, I was shocked to find out that Prime Minister Carney is cutting $7 billion between Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations,\u201d Gazan said. \u201cThey provided $0 to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Today I joined Indigenous women\u2019s organizations condemning the Liberal government\u2019s appalling $7 billion cuts to Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations, two ministries that are already grossly underfunded.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s especially disturbing that at the same time\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/eFRFUtyKro<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Leah ProudLakota (she\/her) (@LeahGazan) April 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The 16-character acronym stands for \u201cMissing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual,\u201d with the plus sign for anyone else who may have been left out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gazan is a member of Canada\u2019s New Democratic Party, which pushes for more government involvement in housing and healthcare and capping prices on certain grocery items. On Tuesday, s<\/span>he was lamenting cuts to the Canadian government\u2019s Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s especially disturbing that at the same time they\u2019re investing billions into the military industrial complex, ignoring their legal obligations to end the ongoing genocide against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people,\u201d Gazan <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> in a social media post.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWithout delay, it must reverse these callous cuts and immediately commit to providing long term, sustainable funding to organizations, agencies and family groups to address the growing violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Last week, Gazan celebrated<\/a> \u201cTransgender Day of Visibility,\u201d claiming transgender-identifying people were under attack by \u201cfar-right-wing\u201d politicians.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s far too common for hateful actors to attack the rights of trans people. Against these corrosive, cowardly attacks, it\u2019s a testament to the bravery and strength of trans people who continue to push back against bigotry and small-mindedness,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Canadian government itself has embraced the linking of MMIWG and 2SLGBTQQIA+ identities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The government created a plan for \u201cdepartments to support systemic change to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls (MMIWG) and Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (2SLGBTQI+) people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In February, a transgender-identifying 18-year-old male opened fire<\/a> on a rural Canadian school, killing six people at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia. While discussing the attack, Canadian police routinely referred to the attacker as a \u201cfemale\u201d and described him as a \u201cgunperson.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n