Liberal, NDP agreement includes promises to further reconciliation – APTN News
Mar 22, 2022
The Liberals and NDP have signed a major agreement that includes four key measures on reconciliation including; investments in Indigenous housing in 2022, accelerating the implementation of the federal pathways program to address missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, a federal-provincial-territorial table on MMIWG and more support for burial searches on the sites of former residential schools.
“I’m optimistic,” said Cassidy Caron, president of the Métis National Council. “The stability that it brings to Parliament really allows us to be able to move on our priorities and I think the agreement, or the priorities that were set out in the agreement on reconciliation, were also very great to see and yeah, we’re optimistic about it.”
The president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada also said the deal is largely positive, but Lorraine Whitman would like to see more firm commitments in the area of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
