57. Canada refused to acknowledge its own official racism embodied in the Indian Act, the Ministry of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and the Department of Indian Affairs, legal institutions of racism and apartheid. Bishop Tutu was now in Canada and had confirmed that the conditions to be found in Canada were similar in many instances to those of apartheid in South Africa. There was one important difference: the indigenous peoples of Canada were few in numbers. But they were the majority in over 90 per cent of the territory claimed by Canada, which had now decided to use force to remove them. The indigenous people could not lose any more land and still remain a people. They were desperate. An end would not come when the present crisis near Montreal was settled. Only international opinion prevented a bloodbath. The indigenous peoples of Canada therefore urged the Sub-Commission not to abandon them. Canada had truly changed. If the Sub-Commission had not been meeting when the crisis had occurred, there would have been many violent deaths. A special rapporteur should be recommended for appointment by the Economic and Social Council to report on the rights of indigenous peoples in Canada and Quebec. At the very least, the Sub-Commission should continue to observe and receive communications on indigenous rights in Canada after the end of its present session. 58. Mrs. GRAF (International League for the Rights and the Liberation of Peoples) said that her organization, whose work was to protect the rights of people mainly in the third world, had for some time been alerted to the situation of a people in Europe. An unproclaimed state of emergency was in force in Kosovo, Yugoslavia. Following a mass poisoning of over 6,000 persons, mostly of school age and almost all of them belonging to the 
**Analysis**
This text appears to be a discussion about human rights and social justice, specifically regarding the treatment of indigenous peoples in Canada and the situation of a minority group in Kosovo, Yugoslavia. The language used is formal and diplomatic, suggesting that it may be a report or statement from a United Nations sub-commission or a non-governmental organization.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, Culture