Have the recommendations of the Ipperwash Inquiry following the police killing of Indigenous land defender Dudley George been implemented? – Peace Brigades International-Canada
January 28, 2026
Indigenous land defender Dudley George was shot by an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer on September 6, 1995. George had been “struck in the chest by a hollow-tipped bullet from a submachine gun” and was “declared dead from massive internal bleeding” hours later in a hospital.
George had been participating in a re-occupation of Ipperwash Provincial Park in south-western Ontario.
George’s family was one of 18 families displaced from the Stony Point First Nation (about 75 kilometres north-west of London, Ontario) in 1942 when the federal government expropriated the land to build a military base. The government had promised to return the land after World War II, but at the time of George’s death, 53 years after that dispossession, the land was still occupied by the military.
