Teens’ Murder Reinforces Call for Inquiry into Missing, Murdered Women

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Unfortunate death of aboriginal teen, Tina Fontaine, has reinforced serious calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. Police had considered 15-year-old girl Fontaine missing three times before she was found murdered in the Red River on Sunday. Fontaine has now joined the list of almost 1,200 native women, girls and even men, who have had similar fate like her across the country.

Approximately 2,000 people convened at a vigil organized in the memory of 15-year-old girl on Tuesday night. Whereas another vigil was organized on Wednesday evening to honor young Cree woman, Hillary Angel Wilson, who was killed in 2009. Vigil organizer, Leah Gazan, mentioned in her remarks that “I think people recognize that this is a child and you know our love of our children crosses all cultural, racial class lines. And when we lose a child it’s a loss to everybody.” Whereas on the other hand, community advocate Tina Keeper alleged that she is seeing larger and larger support from the community, “and the other part I think was really important about last night was it’s a part of a statement that says, we do need a national inquiry on the murdered and missing aboriginal women.”

Meanwhile, national NDP leader Thomas Mulcair also mentioned about the deaths on Wednesday that “it’s a national tragedy. It’s something we should all feel responsible for. And we should all feel the obligation to take the resources to have a full scale inquiry to come up with solutions and find out what happened.”

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