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Public Safety Minister, Steven Blaney, confirmed that the RCMP will release its data on missing and murdered Indigenous women within a month according to the reports from a federal committee in Ottawa on Thursday. The issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women has become a bone of contention between the Harper government and the opposition as it dominated Question Period earlier in the day.
Opposition parties once again demanded Harper government to order a national inquiry after a story alleged that the RCMP has uncovered more than 1,000 cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women, hundreds more than previously thought. Consequently, NDP leader Tom Mulcair mentioned in the House that “the Ottawa area has about a million inhabitants, imagine if a thousand women had been murdered or missing in Ottawa, do you think we’d have to beg for an inquiry?” In response to Mulcair, Harper government alleged that “if the leader of the opposition really wants to make a difference I would invite him to support the Conservative budget for 2014 because it sets aside $25 million for a strategy to look into the matter of missing and murdered Aboriginal women.”
According to a report published on Wednesday, the RCMP allegedly uncovered more than 1,000 cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women with the help other police forces across the country. The report on the project was supposed to be released March 31 but has been delayed by the department of public safety while the RCMP did not deny the figure on Thursday.
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