‘Not a federal report I can write and just table’: Bennett says ‘consensus’ needed before MMIWG action plan’s release

The minister also solicited input from committee members on what indicators the government should be using to track the plan's progress. NDP MP Leah Gazan responded, 'You had almost a year, minister, to figure this out.'
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett, pictured in a committee meeting over Zoom, was repeatedly questioned on when the government plans to release a national action plan in response to the national inquiry into MMIWG.
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says “consensus” is needed before the federal government can release its delayed national action plan in response to the inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. 

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