MMIWG report should prompt more housing for Nunavut: minister – Nunatsiaq News

11 June, 2019

“I think we all have to have that sense of hope”

The Government of Nunavut hopes the new report released by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will translate into funding for much-needed infrastructure across the territory.

Elisapie Sheutiapik, Nunavut’s minister of family services and minister responsible for status of women, attended the commission’s final ceremony on June 3 to receive its final report on behalf of the GN.

Sheutiapik said she left with “a sense of hope” from seeing the Inuit-specific section of the report, which comes with 46 distinct “calls for justice” based on feedback the commission gathered throughout the Inuit Nunangat.

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