OTTAWA — The federal government announced Tuesday it wasappointing a ministerial special representative who will be tasked with providing recommendations for…
At at evening news conference, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said Jennifer Moore Rattray, the former executive director of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, would fill the role.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The Liberals are facing renewed political pressure on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women after Winnipeg police confirmed late last year that they believed four women, including three First Nations women and a fourth woman who is still unidentified, were slain by a serial killer. Ottawa has promised to fund a study about how to search the landfill site after police initially said a search would not be feasible.Article content
He also announced that Indigenous organization Innovation 7 is being tasked with developing recommendations for an oversight mechanism to help the government track its progress in ending violence against Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ people.
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