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Overview

In December 2021, Caroline Wawzonek, Minister Responsible for the Status of Women, tabled Changing the Relationship: the GNWT Draft Action Plan to Address the Calls for Justice on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

The Draft Action Plan is intended to dismantle colonialism and racial and gendered discrimination from all levels of government and public institutions. It explains how the GNWT will work to change the relationship between the GNWT’s departments, agencies, employees, policies, and processes; and their daily encounters with Indigenous women, girls and two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, and asexual plus (2SLGBTQQIA+) people.

The Draft Action Plan is presented in four parts:

1. Introduction: provides context for understanding the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).
2. Acknowledging the crisis: explains the scope of the crisis and the need for an urgent response.
3. Changing the relationship: sets out a vision and objectives to bring about transformative change needed to begin to undo the effects of colonialism and racial and gendered discrimination.
4. Responding to the Calls for Justice: the GNWT’s detailed action plan to respond to the Calls for Justice on Culture and Language, Health and Wellness, Human Security, and Justice.