5 years after MMIWG inquiry’s final report, former commissioners still waiting for progress – CBC

Jun 03, 2024

Former commissioners calling on federal government to use what remains of its mandate to refocus on MMIWG

Five years after a national inquiry delivered more than 200 recommendations aimed at protecting Indigenous women and girls from going missing or being murdered, former commissioners say there’s been too little systemic change across the country.

Former chief commissioner of the inquiry Marion Buller and fellow commissioner Michèle Audette, who now sits as a Quebec senator, told CBC News they aren’t seeing evidence of the political will needed to deliver the paradigm shift in Canada’s relationship with Indigenous women and girls they called for in 2019.

“We’re frustrated, disappointed,” Audette said.

“We lost faith in what [governments and public institutions] said they would do.”

The final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) was delivered to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a ceremony at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., on June 3, 2019. It concluded the MMIWG crisis amounts to a genocide.

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