Winnipeg panel explores call for missing, murdered women inquiry

Aboriginal leaders, advocates and academics gathered at the University of Winnipeg on Monday afternoon to talk about the need for a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada.

The University of Winnipeg Indigenous Advisory Circle presented the public discussion about understanding the call for an inquiry, as well as the role of such an inquiry and its limitations.

Speakers included Justice Murray Sinclair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Manitoba Treaty Commissioner James Wilson, Leslie Spillett of Ka Ni Kanichihk, Dianne Roussin of the Winnipeg Boldness Project, Niigaan Sinclair of the University of Manitoba and Lorena Fontaine, Annette Trimbee and Wab Kinew of the University of Winnipeg.

Click on the video player to watch Chief Francine Meeches of the Swan Lake First Nation describe the search for her cousin, Miranda McKinney, who went missing in October 2013. Police found McKinney's body almost two weeks later.

Meeches also talked about a recent Maclean's magazine article that describes Winnipeg as the most racist city in Canada.