Cons. MP: "Not fair" to expect government action on MMAW
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 5:19 pm"Not fair" to expect government action on missing, murdered Indigenous women: Conservative MP
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The NDP are calling out Kootenay-Columbia MP David Wilks on his "unacceptable" comments.
Elizabeth McSheffrey |Sep 4th, 2015
In a news release, NDP have condemned comments made Kootenay-Columbia Conservative MP David Wilks for suggesting it's "not fair" for Canadians to expect government action on missing and murdered Indigenous women.
While responding to questions about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in an interview with The Free Press on Aug. 6, [ http://www.thefreepress.ca/news/324112471.html ] Wilks suggested that the federal government isn't responsible for more than 1,200 Indigenous girls and women who have disappeared or been murdered since 1980.
“I don't think when it comes to missing and murdered Aboriginal peoples that it's fair for the government of the day – whether it's us, the Liberals the NDP or the Greens – to say 'what are you going to do about it?',” he said. The MP later added that the issue should be discussed broadly as “missing and murdered people,” without the term "Indigenous."
Indigenous people make up 4.3 per cent of Canada's population, but Indigenous women make up quarter of all female murder victims. Indigenous women over 15 are over three times more likely to experience violence. According to a 2015 RCMP report, 32 Indigenous women were murdered within RCMP jurisdictions. [ http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/pubs/abo-aut/ ... da-eng.htm ]
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The NDP are calling out Kootenay-Columbia MP David Wilks on his "unacceptable" comments.
Elizabeth McSheffrey |Sep 4th, 2015
In a news release, NDP have condemned comments made Kootenay-Columbia Conservative MP David Wilks for suggesting it's "not fair" for Canadians to expect government action on missing and murdered Indigenous women.
While responding to questions about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in an interview with The Free Press on Aug. 6, [ http://www.thefreepress.ca/news/324112471.html ] Wilks suggested that the federal government isn't responsible for more than 1,200 Indigenous girls and women who have disappeared or been murdered since 1980.
“I don't think when it comes to missing and murdered Aboriginal peoples that it's fair for the government of the day – whether it's us, the Liberals the NDP or the Greens – to say 'what are you going to do about it?',” he said. The MP later added that the issue should be discussed broadly as “missing and murdered people,” without the term "Indigenous."
Indigenous people make up 4.3 per cent of Canada's population, but Indigenous women make up quarter of all female murder victims. Indigenous women over 15 are over three times more likely to experience violence. According to a 2015 RCMP report, 32 Indigenous women were murdered within RCMP jurisdictions. [ http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/pubs/abo-aut/ ... da-eng.htm ]
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