Among the 35 testimonies from First Nations and Inuit women included in the study, there were 22 cases of forced sterilization occurring between 1980 and 2019.
Last week, in a scrum with reporters, Smith repeated that she was talking to prosecutors but didn't mention she had asked them to consider factors unique to the COVID-19 cases.
Dr. Ligoure's story was brought to light in the 1980s by artist and historian David Woods, who was doing research for Black History Month at the Nova Scotia Public Archives.