Red Dress Day a chance for Canada to end discrimination against First Nations women

Canada must pass Bill S-2 as amended by the Senate without further delay. By removing the second-generation cut-off rule, also known as the ‘disappearing Indian formula,’ it ensures there isn’t a legislative extinction date for each First Nation.

Then-Crown-Indigenous Relations minister Marc Miller speaks at the first anniversary of the National Action Plan for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls a June 2022. Canada must pass Bill S-2 as amended by the Senate without further delay, write Marilyn Slett and Michèle Audette.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade.

Opinion

BY PSG SENATOR MICHèLE AUDETTE, MARILYN SLETT

May 7, 2026

Canada recently marked Red Dress Day on May 5, the National Day of Awareness and Remembrance for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit+ people (MMIWG2S+). The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Girls issued its final report in 2...

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