Trudeau says the next commissioner will be selected through an independent process and did not commit to ensuring Lucki\u0027s successor is Indigenous
His office also confirmed Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin, an Abenaki member of the Odanak First Nation, as the first Indigenous justice for the Supreme Court of Canada.
Officers have faced allegations of failing to properly investigate or take seriously the disappearances and deaths of Indigenous women and girls in Canada. Afterward, she released a statement saying she should have more definitively acknowledged that systemic racism exists within the ranks of the RCMP.
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