Overview
- Leah Gazan, an NDP member of Canada’s Parliament, used the acronym MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ during a press conference criticizing $7 billion in cuts to Indigenous Services Canada and Crown–Indigenous Relations.
- She said the government gave $0 to address what she called an ongoing genocide and she called the decision abhorrent and callous.
- Right-leaning outlets and many social media users mocked the lengthy phrase as “woke” and joked that it sounded like a strong password.
- Gazan repeated the acronym in follow-up posts on X as she pressed her budget case, and the coverage cited no formal government response.
- The acronym merges the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls campaign with LGBTQ2S+ identities, and Two-Spirit refers to Indigenous terms for gender and sexual identity.