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March 26, 2015
RCMP won’t back Valcourt’s claim Indigenous men responsible for 70 per cent of Indigenous women murders
The RCMP says it won’t release “the ethnicity” of perpetrators responsible for the murders of Indigenous women, contradicting statements made earlier Thursday by a Conservative MP and a spokesperson for Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt’s office.
“In the spirit of our bias-free policing policy, the RCMP will not be disclosing statistics on the ethnicity of the perpetrators of solved Aboriginal women homicides,” said the statement issued Thursday evening.
The RCMP’s position contradicts a statement made by Conservative MP Rob Clarke and a spokesperson for Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt.
