Preliminary search finds no reports of coerced sterilization to police: RCMP
OTTAWA — The head of the RCMP says the police force is looking into whether any complaints about forced or coerced sterilizations have been made to law-enforcement agencies in Canada, but that a preliminary review has not identified any.
In a letter to NDP health critic Don Davies, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki says the Mounties searched their national database but did not find any criminal reports of forced or coerced sterilization.
The letter followed Davies’s request in February that the RCMP launch an investigation into allegations dozens of Indigenous women in Saskatchewan and elsewhere were pressured into tubal ligations.