Today they suffer disproportionately from violent crime, relative to Indigenous men, in a way that non-Indigenous women do not. The rate of self-reported sexual assault among Indigenous women in the 2014 General Social Survey (GSS) was more than triple that of non-Indigenous women. (Similarly, non-Indigenous men were murdered two-and-a-half times more often than non-Indigenous women.) Statistics Canada’s analysis of the 2014 GSS data found that Indigenous identity wasn’t a risk factor for the overall Indigenous population. But the obsession with half the Indigenous population leads to some bewildering recommendations, especially on the justice file.

Source: National Post June 04, 2019 00:45 UTC