Five seconds is not enough, but okay.
I've had this discussion before, because the highlights that came out of the Sisters in Spirit report were the higher numbers in the western provinces.
This is something I've been thinking. Colonization started in the east and then it slowly came across to the west. So the reporting of the numbers of women who have gone missing or have been found murdered is, to me, more prevalent in the west. Whether it's historical or generational...I don't know how to explain it more than that. When you're talking about the east...you have more generations that have been impacted by colonization as you move towards the west.
So if the reporting of women who have gone missing or are murdered...maybe your family has forgotten about it or there was no reporting of it. To me, it was also part of the Indian Act system and the whole membership issue as well, because a lot of women were forced from their communities when they married out. A whole bunch of issues still need to be looked at, because it may be the same; it's just the way it's been reported.