Officials with the City of Regina will spend the next year examining what actions it can take to address the Calls to Justice contained in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Final Report.
Council passed a motion Monday tasking the administration to report back by next fall.
The motion in part read “on potential actions and initiatives, as they relate to municipalities, supported by Indigenous leaders, in support of the work of the National Inquiry into the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.”
“It’s a strong depiction of the substantial injustice done to missing and murdered women and children,” Regina Mayor Michael Fougere said. “In many ways it is disgraceful in how they’ve been treated.”
Even before the motion was debated at the council meeting, it had received the signed support of the Mayor and ten Councilors.
The Final Report contains 231 Calls to Justice.
Many municipalities are examining the report to see what they can do to address it.
Fougere says this report and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final report will be used as a central pillar in advancing reconciliation and promote healing in the community.
(Photo: City of Regina Municipal Building. Courtesy of Facebook.)