QuickList: Where the inquiry has passed, failed and areas that require work

OTTAWA — The Native Women’s Association of Canada has issued a new report card for the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and has found problems. 

It found the inquiry failed:

To publicly report its operational and administrative tasks and set deadlines for those tasks.

To communicate and get information to families and to maintain transparency and accountability.

To provide information about plans, interview dates and other topics to families, survivors and stakeholders.

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To publicly release its budget and ensure that individuals and family members involved in the attending hearings and the inquiry process are compensated.

To speedily create issue-specific advisory groups made up of elders, youth, family members of victims, as well as representatives of Indigenous, local and feminist groups to advise on regional matters within the scope of the independent inquiry.

The commission got passing grades for:

Recommending ways to honour and commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Providing recommendations to the federal government through an interim report by last Nov. 1.

Setting up an inquiry process that promotes and advances reconciliation.

The commission still needs work on:

Keeping the inquiry process informal, trauma-informed and respectful of individuals.

Raising public awareness about the causes of violence and solutions for ending it.

Ensuring that hearings that are culturally, linguistically and spiritually appropriate.

Establishing a process in consultation with survivors and community groups that allows individuals and families to share their experiences and views on ways to prevent or eliminate violence.

Maintaining regional representation and keep on using advisory groups that include families and survivors to provide regional perspectives.

Two grades were inconclusive:

Will the recommendations and final report arrive by Nov. 1?

Will that report provide concrete recommendations to remove systemic causes of violence and increase the safety of Indigenous women and girls in Canada?

The Canadian Press