Feelings don’t mask the Liberal failings on the Indigenous file

This human rights crisis has been ignored by this government, whose claims of feminism and reconciliation wear thin without the appropriate action and resources.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett is pictured arriving for Question Period on Sept. 30. This government will continue to feign compassion when it really means condescension and when enough time passes, and after enough protesting, it will dust off the recommendations from the MMIWG inquiry and present it as change, writes Erica Ifill.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

December 9, 2020

CALGARY—Dec. 6, 1989, is a day when 14 women were massacred at École Polytechnique in an anti-feminist attack; it is now known as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. In Canada, this violence hasn’t changed, especially for Indigenous women. Canada has accepted ...

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