In an emotional speech in the House of Commons, Official Opposition NDP Member of Parliament Romeo Saganash called for a national inquiry into 1200 missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada.
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Emotional plea for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women

Canada’s Official Opposition NDP party, using a procedural manoeuvre forced a debate on Friday (September 19) in the House of Commons on the need for a national inquiry into 1200 missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada.

The Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper insists there have been enough studies done, and that there are other ways of dealing with the issue through the criminal justice system.

The Official Opposition has now pledged to start an inquiry in the first 100 days after its election. The election is scheduled for October of 2015.

In Friday’s debate, Official Opposition Member of Parliament Romeo Saganash called for a national inquiry, and gave an example from his own family experience of why closure on such an issue is so important: a brother who had been sent to a residential school for Indigenous people, and never returned.

RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda has a report.

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