'They had the nerve to smell her breath'

This week the world heard from Debbie Baptiste. She spoke out on Monday at a newsconference about an independent report that found Canada's national police force racially discriminated against her in the investigation into her son's death. Her son was Colten Boushie, a young Indigenous man who was shot and killed in 2016.

Today, CBC Saskatoon reporterGuy Quennevillejoins us to explain the report.

We are also joined by Gina Starblanket. She is a Canada research chair in the politics of decolonization, a political science professor at the University of Calgary and co-author of Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial. Starblanket is also a member of the Star Blanket Cree Nation in Treaty 4 territory in Saskatchewan.

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