Red Dress Alert pilot project being developed by Canada, Manitoba [Video]

A new pilot program which will notify the public of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit and gender-diverse people is set to be implemented in Manitoba.

It’s called the Red Dress Alert system and it‘s a partnership between Ottawa and the province.

Last year, Winnipeg Centre NDP MP Leah Gazan proposed a motion in the House of Commons declaring the deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls a Canada-wide emergency. The motion called for immediate funding for a new alert system similar to an Amber Alert program, which is an emergency notification people receive via phone, television, and radio, when a child in their region has been abducted or believed to be in danger, and Silver Alerts which are used to locate vulnerable seniors.

The motion was unanimously backed.

In March, according to a release from the NDP, a study into the Red Dress Alert system began at the Status of Women Committee. …