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Mr. Falconer, what you proposed was very interesting regarding the first nations policing program policy of 1996. The mandate letters for the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and the Minister of Indigenous Services Canada refer to co-developing a legislative framework that recognizes first nations policing as an essential service, as was already said.
Many of the calls for justice from “Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls” relate to justice and policing. Specifically the call for justice 5.4 states:
We call upon all governments to immediately and dramatically transform Indigenous policing from its current state as a mere delegation to an exercise in self-governance and self-determination over policing. To do this, the federal government's First Nations Policing Program must be replaced with a new legislative and funding framework, consistent with international and domestic policing best practices and standards, that must be developed by the federal, provincial, and territorial governments in partnership with Indigenous Peoples.
Could this new legislative framework work? What do we need in order to address the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in a sustainable way?