Federal Government Delays Release of National Action Plan on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
The Trudeau government is postponing the release of the action plan promised for June, one year after the release of the national inquiry’s final report. The inquiry chief commissioner and Indigenous organizations say there has been plenty of time already.
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