Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stopped short of calling the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls a genocide on Monday — despite being called upon to do so — when he spoke after accepting the report of the national public inquiry he called on the issue. Instead, Trudeau said violence against Indigenous women and girls is "not a relic of Canada's past" and the justice system has failed them. The inquiry report uses the term genocide dozens of times, starting in the first paragraph of its preface.