Ottawa’s MMIWG action plan too ‘visionary,’ lacks ‘concrete action,’ warn groups ahead of feds’ release

Just days before the June 3 release of the government's action plan, the Native Women's Association of Canada has backed out of the process saying it was ‘toxic’ and ‘dysfunctional.’

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett's office said it recognizes 'that there have been some difficult and challenging situations' during the development of the national action plan, which one group described as a ‘dysfunctional’ process. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

June 2, 2021

The government’s long-awaited action plan for the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls inquiry is more visionary than substantive and pushes concrete action off to yet another day, Indigenous women are saying two days before its release, with one partner g...

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