Meet Leah Gazan, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre. Leah is a member of Wood Mountain Lakota Nation, located in Saskatchewan, Treaty 4 territory. Leah's lineage has played a big role in her fight, she credits a lot of her inspiration to her mother, a Chinese Lakota and her father, a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Currently the NDP Critic for Children, Families, and Social Development, as well as the Deputy Critic for Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship, Leah is a champion in the fight for a permanent guaranteed livable basic income in Canada. Earlier this year, she was named to Maclean's 2021 Power List. She was a prominent Winnipeg lead during Idle No More and co-founded the #WeCare campaign aimed at ending violence against Indigenous women and girls. In June, Leah brought forward a unanimous consent in the House of Commons to recognize Canada's Indian Residential Schools as an act of genocide. Listen to this episode to hear about Leah's love for her community, Winnipeg center, the definition of genocide and Canada's role in it, her family origins, and the power of matriarchy.

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