Statement made on 20 October 2010 by Senator Lillian Eva Dyck
Hon. Lillian Eva Dyck:
Honourable senators, my question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate.
On March 4, 2010, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced that the Government of Canada had promised $10 million to help address the human crisis in Canada concerning missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Honourable senators, it has been seven months since that announcement and honourable senators may be shocked to learn that none of the funding promised to address this national problem has been disbursed. Families of missing Aboriginal women have been waiting, living with pain and immense grief. They have been waiting far too long for government action.
Can the Leader of the Government in the Senate tell this chamber when the money promised for missing and murdered Aboriginal women will finally be disbursed so that Aboriginal families and communities will no longer have to live quietly in suffering?
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