On June 3, 2019, the report on the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) was submitted. After the report came out, Minister Bennettcontacted us on June 13, 2019. Several indigenous women's organizations—which are very representative—including Quebec Native Women, met with Ms. Bennett in the Senate. We recommended that we begin developing a national action plan. In other words, we recommended that each province could already begin formulating a provincial action plan and we could meet once a year to summarize the work done by the 10 Canadian provinces.
That was June 13, 2019, and it is now July 2020. It's not because of COVID-19. It has been a year. There are gaps in the federal government's commitments and it is just too slow—