Premier Brad Wall says he supports the idea of holding a public inquiry into the plight of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in the country.
Calls for an inquiry were raised recently at the premiers’ meeting in Nova Scotia.
Wall calls the issue a devastating tragedy that Saskatchewan has been affected by:
“Aboriginal women’s organizations, First Nations organizations across the country, and others are saying: ‘We need to look at a serious inquiry on the issue, to get to the bottom of not just causes, but perhaps things that we can be doing to mitigate against this’ — and Saskatchewan certainly had no problem supporting that.”
A summit on the issue is expected to take place in Manitoba later this fall.
That province’s premier, Greg Selinger, has also pushed publicly for a national task force on the matter.