CANADA: STEPHEN HARPER NEEDS COUNSELLING - Will He Get It?

Noella Fontaine, Tina's grandmother, said her family had asked CFS to get counselling for Tina but that never happened.

Tina Fontaine was still dealing with the violent beating death of her father three years earlier.

"She didn't grieve for him when we had the body. She didn't show no emotions. She was just holding it in," said Fontaine.

The death of the Winnipeg teen has also refocused attention on the still unsolved cases of hundreds of missing or murdered aboriginal women in Canada, with many First Nations communities and women's and aboriginal rights advocates, including the Canadian Human Rights Commission, calling for a national public inquiry.

The government of Stephen Harper, however, has rejected these calls, with Harper saying as recently as this week that the cases are strictly a police matter and do not warrant a wider inquiry.

"We should not view this as a sociological phenomenon. We should view it as crime," Harper said Thursday during a tour of Canada's North.

Other politicians, including Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger, have criticized this view and said the issue needs to be addressed on a national level.

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