Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I'm going to follow up on my Member's statement and questions from yesterday with regard to the final report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQQUIA people.
The calls for justice in that report require sweeping changes and actions by all levels of government to bring this reality to those calls for justice. This report and the calls for justice are wide-ranging and apply across various government departments. If implemented fully, Mr. Speaker, these calls for justice can have positive effects for Indigenous women and girls and, in fact, for all Canadians.
Mr. Speaker, the calls for justice include the implementation of UNDRIP, on which I should add that both the federal government plans to introduce legislation and BC have actually passed legislation and is leading the country in terms of implementing UNDRIP. The calls for justice call for reforms on health, child and family services, housing, policing, justice, education, and extractive and development industries, to name a few. As you can see, these calls for justice will need a whole-government approach to achieve real, meaningful change.
Mr. Speaker, today I call upon my Cabinet colleagues, their DMs, and, in fact, all MLAs in this House, to take the time to read and familiarize themselves with the national report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQQUIA people, and the calls for justice in that report. I also ask that this government take into account those calls for justice in our decision-making as we move forward, as these may save lives.
As I close, I would like to leave you all with a statement and a question, and I hope you agree: I am a change-maker; are you? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.