Indigenous rights, sexual harassment, engaging grassroots dominate final day of NDP policy convention

NDP members call for a national inquiry into Colten Boushie’s death and changes to the Criminal Code on jury selection.

Delegates vote on the internal democracy resolution at the 2018 New Democratic Party policy convention in Ottawa on Feb. 18, 2017.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

February 18, 2018

New Democrats agreed they want their party to demand a national inquiry into the “gross miscarriage of justice” in Colten Boushie’s shooting death and the RCMP’s handling of the case as well as confront sexual harassment in their own ranks.

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