Two poems written by a man who killed an Indigenous woman in Regina have been removed from the Library of Parliament website.

The poems by Stephen Brown were removed Monday at the request of the Speakers of the Senate and House of Commons.

They were posted when George Elliott Clarke was the parliamentary poet laureate, but Manitoba MLA Nahanni Fontaine said they showed disrespect toward Brown's victim and other missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Clarke last week cancelled a lecture at the University of Regina following outrage over his working relationship and friendship with Brown, who was convicted of manslaughter in the 1995 beating death of Pamela George.

Heather Lank, the parliamentary librarian, recommended the poems be removed and the Speakers of the Senate and the House of Commons agreed, said Tanya Sirois, a communications adviser for the Library of Parliament.

“What this whole event has highlighted is that still in 2020, despite the national inquiry, despite the commissioners putting on the historical record of Canada that we have a genocide of Indigenous women and girls and two-spirited (persons), we were about to be celebrating a murderer’s poetry at a MMIWG conference,” Fontaine said Monday. “Here we are, we’re still fighting.

“But what it’s also highlighted is that Indigenous women, MMIWG families will not tolerate that and will not put up with that.”