Canada launches investigating into aboriginal women murder cases

“The Government of Alberta welcomes Prime Minister Trudeau’s commitment to a renewed relationship between Canada and Indigenous peoples, including launching a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women”, she said in a statement.

Among the government’s top priorities, he said, will be the creation of a national public inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women.

Between the years 1980-2012, almost 1,200 Aboriginal women went missing or were murdered-164 missing and 1,017 homicide victims, according to an RCMP report.

“Working together as partners, I am confident that we can make meaningful and immediate progress on the issues that matter most to First Nations communities”, Mr Trudeau said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says those touched by the tragedy have waited long enough.

Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu admitted Monday the Liberals are in the “very beginning stages” of their work and have no pre-conceived ideas about what the inquiry should look like.

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Indigenous women are three times more likely to report experiencing violence.

Some family members said they felt compelled to head to Parliament Hill to hear first-hand how the initial steps of the inquiry will take shape.

In his address, Trudeau also said the Liberal government understands constitutionally guaranteed rights of First Nations are not an inconvenience but rather “a sacred obligation”.

Every child and young person living in Canada deserves a chance for a good education, he said, and First Nations students are “no less deserving”.

A mural on Portage Avenue shows the faces of missing and murdered aboriginal women, as created by artist Tom Andrich.

“I think initially what it brings is validation, that the fact that someone is actually listening and that someone does care about the issue”.

Just one day after Finance Minister Bill Morneau conceded the promised Liberal middle-class tax cut will cost more than originally planned, Trudeau told First Nations leaders of his plan to remove the two per cent cap on reserve program funding.

“There is no relationship more important to me – and to Canada – than the one with First Nations, the Métis Nation, and Inuit”.

Mr. Trudeau said he would start the process of acting on the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that investigated abuses at the former Indian residential schools.