Empowered Aboriginal women help to make communities all over Canada stronger. Women have the ability to not only be caring and understanding, but they also have the ability to use their heads to solve problems. With empowered women in communities all over Canada, Canada is living more peacefully and getting stronger. More often than not, this is not happening. Canada needs to realize that only good things can come of women having more prominent roles in their communities. The closer Canada gets to equality; the closer Canada gets to its full …show more content…
Indian Residential Schools, the child welfare system, discrimination, and marginalization caused by the Indian Act of 1876, created a lot of issues for Aboriginal women. These things have caused Aboriginal women and girls to be mistreated and disrespected for generations. They have been forced to face not only economic, but also educational disadvantages. These two things have both had wide-reaching and damaging impacts. One of these affects is poverty. Across Canada nine percent of Canadians live in poverty, and of the nine percent, thirty-six percent of those who are currently living in poverty are Aboriginal