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National action plan for missing and murdered Indigenous women delayed

May 26, 2020 | 3:50 PM

OTTAWA — 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.