`Make a list’, NWAC CEO tells Miller as feds get failing grade on progress made on MMIWG plan

 By Shari Narine  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Words spoken earlier this week by Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller have the CEO of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) riled. Miller delivered a statement June 5 marking the fourth anniversary since the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) delivered its final report. “He says it’s not a tick box operation,” said Lynne Groulx, and she agrees. “It’s not a tick box? It’s a genocide.” “But at the same time?if you are responsible for a department and you have 231 calls for justice?231 activities and initiatives and things that you have to do to end the genocide, excuse me, you need to make a list,” Groulx said. In a brief address in the House of Commons…

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