Indigenous women look to federal parties to commit to national inquiry calls in October platforms

Mohawk activist Ellen Gabriel says the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’ findings and recommendations should be an election issue this fall.

The four national inquiry commissioners (clockwise from left: chief commissioner Marion Buller, Brian Eyolfson, Qajaq Robinson, and Michèle Audette) took part in a sacred ceremony to hand over the final report. Sitting on a red star blanket, the report was touched with sacred objects, including ash, tobacco, cedar, sweetgrass, sage, and copper cups of water from each coast before being wrapped in seal skin and tied with a Métis sash. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

June 5, 2019

With the release of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’ final report and recommendations, Indigenous women say they’re looking to all federal parties to pick up the inquiry’s calls in their platforms for October. “I’m really hoping that all the parti...

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