The Manitoba government has offered to host a second national roundtable on missing and murdered aboriginal women to follow up on last winter’s event in Ottawa.
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Paul Davis said Tuesday that Canada’s premiers support the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations and will act on them – with or without Ottawa’s help.
Davis spoke Wednesday at a closing news conference after hosting provincial and territorial leaders and the heads of five national native groups in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, N.L.
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The provinces have not only pledged to act on the commission’s 94 recommendations but, in some cases, have already started, he said.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s longstanding absence from first ministers’ meetings is a missed chance for collaboration, he also said.
An RCMP report has said almost 1,200 aboriginal women have been murdered or have vanished since 1980.
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