The federal government is set to release its action plan Thursday in response to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls' findings and its numerous recommendations. Bennett called Pictou Maloney and co-chair Hilda Anderson-Pyrz the "heart and soul of the work to respond to the national inquiry," during the ceremony. The Native Women's Association of Canada announced Tuesday it won't be a signatory on the national plan. Calls for justicePictou Maloney said it was important to keep families central to the process of crafting the national plan. Denise Pictou Maloney lights a candle for her mother, Annie Mae Pictou-Aquash, at a national inquiry event in Halifax in 2017.

Source: CBC News June 02, 2021 22:07 UTC