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• Many women who have experienced spousal violence also experience higher
daily stress levels and related impacts 53% of women victimized in the
preceding 12 months by a spouse stated that most of their days were “quite
a bit or extremely stressful”, which is significantly higher than the proportion
of women victimized by someone else (41%) and the proportion of women not
victimized (23%) 53
• The implications of not completing high school in Canada are enormous, with
both direct and indirect cost impacts on health, social services, education,
employment, criminality and economic productivity 54
• 36% of off-reserve Indigenous children under the age of six live in poverty
compared to 19 per cent of non-Indigenous children 55
6. Systemic racism and discrimination are contributing to
entrenched inequity
Consider this:
• Indigenous youth from remote northern communities do not have any
options but to relocate to a municipality or an urban centre to complete their
education Similarly to the era of residential schools, they are forced to be away
from their families for the purpose of learning another way of life One of the
concerns associated with having children move away from their communities
is that they will then experience additional racism and discrimination in a
situation in which they are isolated and without suffcient supports.
53 Statistics Canada Measuring violence against women: statistical trends Canadian
Centre for Justice Statistics February 2013 http://wwwstatcangcca/pub/85­
002-x/2013001/article/11766-engpdf pg 9
54 Hasvinsky Cost Estimates of Dropping Out of High School in Canada
December 2008 Please see: http://citeseerxistpsuedu/viewdoc/
download?doi=10115104857&rep=rep1&type=pdf
55 Source: Statistics Canada (2008) Aboriginal Children’s Survey, 2006: Supporting
Data Tables
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