Mr. Speaker, over 800 indigenous women have been murdered or have disappeared since 1990. For victims' families and their communities, the status quo is not acceptable.
As Loretta Saunders’ cousin said, “We must not let this happen again without our government putting some serious effort…into a public inquiry”.
It is time to honestly acknowledge the problem and deal with the root causes of violence against indigenous women. It is time to work in partnership and end this tragedy.
Will the government listen to Canadians and call a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women?