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S.M. 2017, c. 30

Bill 221, 2 nd Session, 41st Legislature

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Honouring and Awareness Day Act

Explanatory Note

This note is a reader's aid and is not part of the law.

This Act proclaims October 4 in each year as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Honouring and Awareness Day.

(Assented to June 2, 2017)

WHEREAS more than 1,200 Indigenous women and girls in Canada have gone missing or been murdered since 1980, according to police reports;

AND WHEREAS for decades their families have called for greater recognition of the crisis of violence against Indigenous women and girls;

AND WHEREAS the tragic issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada has garnered attention and support throughout Manitoba, Canada and the international community;

AND WHEREAS advocacy by their families, with the support of Indigenous women's organizations, led to the creation of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls;

AND WHEREAS vigils honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls are held across Canada on October 4 each year, raising public awareness and building a movement of social change in respect of violence against Indigenous women and girls;

AND WHEREAS families of Manitoba's missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls have called for an official day of awareness to honour their daughters, mothers, sisters, grandmothers, partners and friends;

THEREFORE HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Honouring and Awareness Day

1

In each year, October 4 is to be known throughout Manitoba as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Honouring and Awareness Day.

C.C.S.M. reference

2

This Act may be referred to as chapter M198 of the Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba.

Coming into force

3

This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.