The thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada constitute a ‘genocide,’ according to a summary of the final report by the national inquiry investigating the issue.
Published Friday, May 31, 2019 10:22PM EDT
The final report of the $92-million inquiry, which was launched nearly two and a half years ago by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, is slated to be released to the public on June 3, but copies of it were leaked on Friday. Sheila North, the former Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Grand Chief who co-produced a documentary about this epidemic, said that she “was almost a statistic” herself when she moved from the reserve into the city.
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