Politics This Morning: Trudeau pledges action to address systemic violence after release of MMIWG report

Plus, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Vancouver today for the Women Deliver conference, a four-day summit that touches on issues of gender equality and health, among other issues.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau carries the inquiry's final report, a 1,200-page document that details decades of systemic violence faced by Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Though Mr. Trudeau said the 'truths' heard during the inquiry need to be recognized, he did not explicitly affirm the commission's assertion that Canada's policies towards Indigenous peoples amounted to genocide. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY Beatrice Paez

June 4, 2019

Good Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the national inquiry's work detailing the decades of systemic violence and oppression faced by Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse people "will not be placed on a shelf to collect dust." He told the more than 500 pe...

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