Overview
- The federal budget, tabled Nov. 12, 2026, earmarked $3.6 million for Indigenous women’s measures including a missing-person alert pilot.
- Leaders from the Native Women’s Association of Canada and partner groups welcomed some funding but said the amount is too small to meet urgent safety and support needs.
- The coalition said it met with Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty before the budget but found their priorities were not reflected in the spending plan.
- Advocates warned that faster resource and major-project development, combined with transient workforces, housing shortages and lack of childcare, raises risks of exploitation and violence.
- They called for multi-year, accountable investments and a meaningful Indigenous-led role in design and delivery, citing the 2019 MMIWG inquiry’s 231 calls to action and slow progress since then.