Members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, who are meeting in Saint John, taking time out on National Aboriginal Day to stage a demonstration on King Street outside the office of M-P Rodney Weston.
National Union President Robyn Benson says P-SAC wants the Harper Government to hold a national inquiry into why such high numbers of Aboriginal women have been murdered and go missing. She calls it shameful the federal Conservatives have rejected the idea and is calling on people to put pressure on their local M-P’s to have one.
RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson concedes he is ‘surprised’ by the high number of reported cases of murdered and missing aboriginal women.
The RCMP say there are almost 12 hundred reported cases of murdered and missing aboriginal women over the past 30 years which exceeds previou estimates.
