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Justice committee  It may; as you see currently, you have the work of Christi Belcourt, of Jackie Traverse, and of many aboriginal women who have used art to bring forward the issue of missing and murdered as a measure of expressing themselves. But this is only a tiny area that will advance their a

October 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Teresa Edwards

Justice committee  I wanted to say that for us, at NWAC, we get calls weekly, as recently as within the last two weeks, from aboriginal women who are victims of violence who have called 911 and been told.... In particular, a woman was attacked in her neighbourhood, remembered that the inside door w

October 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Teresa Edwards

Justice committee  Sure. I don't have a specific amount I could list, but I know for aboriginal victims they feel completely lost within the system. In fact they face added discrimination by not having access to information in their own language and in their own culture. Cultural behaviours are i

October 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Teresa Edwards