Women are stratified in Canada, so the experience of gender violence is overlaid by other aspects. The amount of violence, deaths and disappearances among indigenous women is higher due to the very reality of their status within Canada. They have been deemed to have a lower status in Canada through the Indian Act and through all the policies and the relationships. Others are stratified along those same lines: women of colour, immigrant women of colour, migrant women and women with precarious immigration status. The social aspects are gendered. They are not created equal and don't roll out equally for women in Canada. Our policies have to recognize that Canada does have a race and class hierarchy. It is very important that we acknowledge that obvious reality, and that the services, our programs and our policies draw on it too.
On May 27th, 2020. See this statement in context.