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Molly Dixon, right, mother of Angeline Pete, holds up a picture of her missing daughter during a news conference outside the Missing Women Inquiry in Vancouver, B.C. Monday, Oct. 24, 2011.
Molly Dixon, right, mother of Angeline Pete, holds up a picture of her missing daughter during a news conference outside the Missing Women Inquiry in Vancouver, B.C. Monday, Oct. 24, 2011.
(JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Provinces agree to press for national inquiry into missing aboriginal women

Alexandra Paul,

Winnipeg — The Canadian Press

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Nine of Canada’s provinces pressed Wednesday for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women across the country.

The action came after a meeting in Winnipeg of aboriginal affairs ministers from every province and territory except British Columbia.

“We jointly call upon the federal government to call a national inquiry into this matter of missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls,” said Manitoba’s Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson, chairman of the working group of the provincial and territorial aboriginal affairs.