Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 41: Justice (25-42)

Funding to address domestic violence

June 3, 2021

$28.5M over 5 years for programs to address domestic violence:

  • $10 million has been allocated to help support prevention and intervention services in the field of domestic and family violence in Nunavik.
  • $9.8 million will be made available to Indigenous police forces to meet specific needs connected with domestic and family violence
  • $6 million for the implementation of the recommendations made by the Viens Commission and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls to support local, culturally relevant services to assist Indigenous men and women, and their close relatives, in the healing process.