Protesters accuse Manitoba government of stalling MMIW inquiry

About half a dozen tents were set up outside the Manitoba Legislative Building by protesters who say the province is keeping a national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women from getting underway.

Last week, Brian Pallister's Progressive Conservative government said it is moving forward with an order in council in support of the inquiry, but officials are still in negotiations with the federal government over the terms of reference.

"Now that the inquiry has been called, it feels like Manitoba is stalling. We seem to be the ones holding everything up, and that's not OK," Sandy Banman, one of the protesters, said Tuesday.

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