By Stephanie Taylor THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA- The House of Commons unanimously backed a motionTuesday declaring the deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls a Canada-wide emergency, and calling for funding for a new system to alert the public when someone goes missing. Leah Gazan, who represents a Winnipeg riding, presented the motion to her colleagues in the afternoon. She previously led an effort for the House to recognize the residential school system as a genocide, which it did last fall. “The truth is the truth,” she told reporters after Tuesday’s vote. “It’s one thing to acknowledge truth, it’s another thing to act on it.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said advancing reconciliation with Indigenous people is one of his top priorities since forming government in 2015. In 2019,

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