From the first page of the introduction to their final report, the commissioners who presided over the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women accuse Canada of carrying out “a race-based genocide of Indigenous Peoples” that especially targets women, girls and LGTBQ people. Instead, Trudeau wisely took the more cautious route of promising that his government will use the report as the basis for a “national action plan” to address violence against Indigenous women and girls. Those include reforming police services, including Indigenous forces, to make them more responsive to violence against women and girls. But linking that to reducing violence against Indigenous women and girls is a stretch, to put it mildly. The government should rescue the inquiry from itself by building on the best recommendations to end the plague of violence against Indigenous women and girls.

Source: thestar June 03, 2019 21:22 UTC