B.C. families of missing, murdered women urge national inquiry to get it right
VANCOUVER — There’s no room for mistakes in the newly announced national inquiry into murdered and missing women, says a coalition of British Columbia families and support groups.
Mary Teegee, with the Carrier Sekani Family Services, said the federal government’s decision to call the inquiry finally acknowledges there is a problem in Canada.
“By the very virtue that nothing has been done for all these years, that is a mark of racism — that people could overlook thousands of missing and murdered Indian women and it wasn’t a national crisis until just recently,” she told a news conference Wednesday in Vancouver.
“This is not an indigenous problem. It’s not a women’s problem. It’s a Canadian problem that we need to work together to deal with and this is a good first step.”