Truckers Could Help Find Missing Women

Truckers Could Help Find Missing Women

Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 13:58

A support worker from B.C. is raising awareness about missing women in Western Canada.

Angela Marie MacDougall is the executive director of the Battered Women’s Support Services in Vancouver.

MacDougall met with Métis and First Nations women’s groups in Saskatchewan last week.

She says the point of her trip is to encourage women’s rights advocates across western Canada to work together, and encourage relationship building.

“Everybody’s there, it’s just a matter of pulling together all the parties at this point, and figuring out how we’re going to work together, without it being too cumbersome,” MacDougall says.

MacDougall says truckers could be responsible for the missing women.

She plans to develop relationships in trucking industry and municipal and rural law enforcement to work together.