An Indigenous lens on Poverty Reduction in Canada

Leah Gazan is the NDP Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre, which she has represented since 2019. She is a member of Wood Mountain Lakota Nation, located in Saskatchewan, Treaty 4 territory. Gazan is a leader in local, national and international human rights advocacy. In the House of Commons, she championed motions to recognize the residential school system as an act of genocide, and to recognize the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people (MMIWG2S) as a Canada-wide emergency and to immediately invest in a Red Dress Alert system. She has also tabled several bills in the House of Commons upholding Indigenous rights, including Bill C-223 to develop a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income, in fulfillment of Call for Action 4.5 of the Final Report of the National Inquiry into MMIWG, along with Bill C-254 to add to the Criminal Code the incitement of hate through residential school denialism. In 2024, MP Gazan received the Doris Anderson Award from Chatelain Magazine for her advocacy surrounding the Red Dress Alert.

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