Indigenous women have been going missing and been murdered along an infamous stretch of highway in British Columbia since the 1960s. But not much is being done to find them or who killed them.
We’re still waiting for the results of a one-year-old FOI request.
Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. She lives in Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on Twitter @amandajfollett. SHARES The RCMP spent $1 million a month policing the Coastal GasLink pipeline route in Wet’suwet’en territory. One year after a Tyee FOI, the force still won’t reveal what it spends to investigate murdered and missing Indigenous women.
Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.
Canada’s national police service can’t or won’t reveal what it spends investigating cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, despite a national inquiry’s conclusion that violence against Indigenous women is “deliberate race, identity and gender-based genocide.”