CANADA
Ottawa Citizen
MARK KENNEDY, OTTAWA CITIZEN
An upcoming public inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women must explore a range of possible causes, including the role of gangs and the international sex trade, says the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
It also says the inquiry must expose “systemic” flaws that can be remedied with new policy.
In its final report, the commission strongly supports a public inquiry and provides more than 20 specific recommendations on how it should be structured. The TRC says the inquiry should look at the role played by governments, the RCMP and other police and the child welfare system.
Aboriginal women are more likely than other women to experience risk factors for violence.
As well, the commissioners say the inquiry should look at whether serial killers are at fault, and how the threat of violence against Canadian aboriginal women compares to similar threats in other countries.
“Aboriginal women are more likely than other women to experience risk factors for violence,” the commission says in its report, to be released Tuesday. “They are disproportionately young, poor, unemployed, likely to have been involved with the child welfare system and to live in a community marked by social disorder.”
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