‘We need action’: AFN chief slams Ottawa’s lack of progress to address MMIWG

Five years after the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) was delivered, which listed more than 200 calls to action to help combat the epidemic, the federal government is under fire for its inaction. Mackenzie Gray reports on Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak’s message for Ottawa, and how Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree disagrees the government has done little.

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