OTTAWA — The House of Commons has unanimously backed a motion to declare the deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls a Canada-wide emergen
Leah Gazan, who represents a riding in Winnipeg, presented the motion before members of Parliament this afternoon.
The MP previously led the effort for the House to recognize the residential school system as a genocide, which it did last fall. Speaking after today’s vote, Gazan says she is glad to to see MPs recognize a “truth” in the country, but says it’s another thing to act on it. She and other advocates have been pushing for a public alert system to be established that would send a phone notification when an Indigenous woman disappears.
Gazan has said she imagines it operating like an Amber Alert, which is an emergency notification that goes out when a child is missing and believed to be in danger.If you have found a spelling error, please, notify us by selecting that text and pressing
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