Saskatchewan people gather in Ottawa for missing and murdered indigenous women

Some Saskatchewan people who have lost family members are in Ottawa todayfor the nationalroundtableon missing and murdered indigenous women.

One of them is Saskatoon's Carol Wolfe. Herdaughter,Karina, went missing from the city in 2010.

The mother joinedCanadian politicians and leaders for the national roundtable.

Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte is co-chair of Iskwewuk Ewichiwitochik, Cree forWomen Walking Together.TheSaskatoon group of activistsworks to educate people about the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women and is pushing for a national inquiry into the issue.

She hopes the meeting will yield an action plan for what a national inquiry will look like.

Okemaysim-Sicotte saidthere needs to be an official way to streamline educationand police work on the issue.

"A kind of new legislation of some type, I don't know what that would look like, but I know there's probably something around the world that resembles something that could work for Canada," she said.

Action to improve police work

Okemaysim-Sicotte said theshared experiences of peoplewho have lost loved ones, like Carol Wolfe, will help to streamline police protocols when women go missing.

"One of the things that families always say [is needed] when they are doing a search is that when they get leads they're going from province to provinceis a quicker form of communication between all the dispatch offices of RCMP and police services."

Saskatchewan leaders at the roundtable include FSIN Interim Chief Kimberly Jonathanand Okanese First Nation Chief Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier,as well as other politicians including Justice Minister Gordon Wyatt.