The NDP Opposition has announced it would launch a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women within 100 days of forming government.
Calls for a national inquiry have once again heated up in the wake of the body of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine being pulled from Winnipeg’s Red River last week.
Provincial premiers and territorial leaders meeting in Charlottetown, P.E.I. this week are also calling for a national inquiry.
“Enough is enough,” NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says in a release. “Stephen Harper has made it clear that he has no intention of doing the right thing. But I can promise that, if the NDP forms government in 2015, we will launch an investigation into murdered and missing Indigenous women.”
So far, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has remained steadfast in his refusal to call a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women.
He recently referred to the issue as not a “sociological phenomenon.”
A recent RCMP report estimates 1,200 Aboriginal women have been murdered or gone missing over the last 30 years.
A federal election is expected in the fall of 2015.