The commissioners produced 10 recommendations in its report, including a call for the creation of a "commemoration fund," that would help families remember their lost loved ones.Remember, this doesn't apply to non-aboriginal persons, or apparently even aboriginal men, who are murdered in far greater numbers than their female counterparts.
It also endorsed the idea of providing compensation to the families of a missing or murdered women through the creation of a "healing fund."
Note also that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had five years to carry out its work... and they'll be asking for an extension.
Of course, they've blown through a $60-million budget and a five-year mandate which was later extended for an additional year.
Nice work if you can get it.
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RELATED: Was this even an issue?
Crucially for a prevailing stereotype related to the issue, nearly 90 per cent of murders of aboriginal women were solved, a rate that barely differed from that of non-aboriginal women (88 versus 89 per cent).**********
Of the 2,500 murdered aboriginal Canadians, murdered in Canada between 1982 and 2011, fully 71 per cent — 1,750 — were male, and 745 were female.
LAST WORD: Trudeau government goes "full vajayjay"
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled Ottawa’s action plan on women, peace and security Wednesday, saying that a “feminist foreign policy” is needed now more than ever in the face of “angry reactionary movements.”And while we're on policy...
OTTAWA -- Immigration to Canada is set to increase over the next three years to 340,000 people a year by 2020 under the federal Liberal government's new multi-year approach to admissions planning.
The immigration plan released Wednesday will see immigration levels climb from 300,000 people a year this year to 310,000 in 2018 and 330,000 in 2019.