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MMIWG action plan delayed due to coronavirus pandemic, minister says

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Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says a national action plan to make life safer for Indigenous women and girls is not going to be ready next month as planned.

June 3 will mark one year since the national inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls concluded with a 1,200-page report and 231 “calls for justice.” Bennett told the Assembly of First Nations last December that the government’s promised national action plan would be ready by the one-year anniversary.

Today Bennett says COVID-19 is making that impossible. She says the government remains committed to getting the response completed but that many of the people who were working on the front lines of the response are the same people helping provinces

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