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When hearings began in the long-demanded inquiry into Canada’s missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in September 2016, Anita Ross experienced a rare moment of happiness in a year marked by tragedy.
That February, her 16-year-old daughter, Delaine Copenace — a Johnny Cash fan who was “just starting to come out of her shell” — went missing during a walk in Kenora, Ontario, where she lived. She was found dead in a nearby lake wearing her favorite T-shirt three weeks later. A coroner ruled out foul play and labeled her death an accidental drowning, a conclusion Ross rejects.
Ross was hopeful that the two-year, nearly 54 million Canadian dollar inquiry into the systemic reasons for the disproportionate number of indigenous women and girls who face violence, are murdered or go missing would bring justice and closure.
But now, after having testified before the inquiry in Thunder Bay, Ontario, she and others lack confidence that it will bring about the changes that it promised.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...women-a-failing-grade/?utm_term=.fd949b3a5536
That February, her 16-year-old daughter, Delaine Copenace — a Johnny Cash fan who was “just starting to come out of her shell” — went missing during a walk in Kenora, Ontario, where she lived. She was found dead in a nearby lake wearing her favorite T-shirt three weeks later. A coroner ruled out foul play and labeled her death an accidental drowning, a conclusion Ross rejects.
Ross was hopeful that the two-year, nearly 54 million Canadian dollar inquiry into the systemic reasons for the disproportionate number of indigenous women and girls who face violence, are murdered or go missing would bring justice and closure.
But now, after having testified before the inquiry in Thunder Bay, Ontario, she and others lack confidence that it will bring about the changes that it promised.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...women-a-failing-grade/?utm_term=.fd949b3a5536
