VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — An Indigenous lawyer is calling the final report into Missing and Murdered Indigenous women a long-awaited step in the right direction.
The 1,200-page report labels the violence suffered by Indigenous women and girls a “genocide” and crisis “centuries in the making.”
As a Metis woman herself, Kyla Lee, a lawyer with Acumen Law, says the final report and recommendations are a glimmer of hope for victims and families.
She says with thousands of Indigenous women missing and murdered in Canada, it’s clear the federal government needs to make meaningful changes.
“The government should start the process now, so that even if we have a government change after the federal election, we at least have the wheels in motion, so there is some comfort that action is being taken,” she says.
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