Question Period Note: MMIWG – National Action Plan Timeline

• Our government, Indigenous leaders, families and survivors, and provincial and territorial governments are working to co-develop a National Action Plan that will set a clear roadmap to end the systemic causes of violence against Indigenous women, girls, and LGBTQ and Two-Spirit people.

• This work coninues, but it's clear that the grassroots who are essential to developing this plan are also on the frontlines of Covid19.

• As part of that commitment, we are investing $50 million to support shelter and sexual assault centres for women and children fleeing violence, which includes targeted funding for facilities serving Indigenous communities.

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If pressed
• As called for in the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman and Girls, we are working together on a distinctions-basis with Indigenous partners, with family members and survivors, and all of our provincial and territorial partners on the co-development of a National Action Plan.
• This work began long before COVID-19, and remains a priority. In recent months, fighting COVID-19 has demanded the attention of all our partners and presented unique challenges for engagement for everyone.

Further if pressed
• We share the sense of urgency to get this done, but we need to do this in partnership to get this right. For a truly National Action Plan, that means working with and listening to our partners every step of the way.
• We – federal, provincial, and territorial governments and Indigenous leadership - have been working together to develop a truly national response to ending this ongoing national tragedy and that work continues in new ways in a new COVID-19 reality.