Food for thought

In March, the federal government rejected appeals for a national enquiry into murdered and missing aboriginal women that angered the opposition and Canadian native groups. Statistics Canada has shown that aboriginal women are twice as likely to suffer domestic violence than other Canadian women. They accounted for eight per cent of homicide victims in Canada between 2004 and 2010 despite representing only four per cent of the female population. Claudette Dumont-Smith, executive director of the Native Women's Association, said, " There's no new action, just a continuation of what's in place, so what's going to change, really?" Under capitalism, we cannot expect any change from discrimination or oppression because they are part of the system. John Ayers