TORONTO, Ont. -- Kenora’s provincial representative is encouraging the province to support the push for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women.
Sarah Campbell (NDP, Kenora-Rainy River) is her party’s critic for both Aboriginal affair and women’s issues in Queen’s Park. On Thursday she addressed the issue of a national inquiry into Canada’s missing and murdered Aboriginal women at the provincial legislature.
“Let’s be sure that we are taking action towards seeing a great reduction in these numbers of murdered and missing aboriginal women in Ontario,” Campbell said. “Let’s get to the bottom of this and turn this around.
“The Ontario and federal NDP believe that a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women needs to happen so that we can examine the full scope of this issue as only an inquiry can.”
Crediting the RCMP for solving many of the cases, and the Aboriginal organizations that have helped compile information, the MPP said that the focus should be on finding and addressing some of the root causes of this issue.
“For the sake of reducing these numbers, simply looking at the crimes after the fact doesn’t solve the problem of the issue happening in the first place.”
