Tomorrow is a day set aside each year to commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two spirit people.
Known as Red Dress Day, the event is held on May 5th of each year to bring awareness of cross-Canada crisis.
Despite accounting for less than 5 percent of Canada’s population, Indigenous women make up nearly a quarter of all female homicides victims.
On Tuesday, the House of Commons voted unanimously to recognize the on-going crisis as a Nation-wide emergency.
That came as part of a motion tabled by NDP MP Leah Gazan, which also called for the creation of a Red Dress Alert system.
Similar to an amber alert, the system would send a notification to phones when an Indigenous woman, girl, or two-spirit individual is reported missing.
Yesterday, Skeena-Bulkley MP Taylor Bachrach joined Gazan in an online event to discuss the system and its importance.
Bachrach says its one thing for government to acknowledge the truth, but another to take action, and says he will keep pushing for the creation of the alert system.
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