What’s Current: NWAC gives inquiry into missing and murdered women failing grade

Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett, Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu, left, and Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, right (Image: CBC News)

Native Women’s Association of Canada gives the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Women and girls a failing grade. An open letter further criticizes the process and progress to date as “disorganized, haphazard and falling apart.”

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Susan Cox

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and academic living in the United States. She teaches in Philosophy.