Fifty-six percent of the poor in Canada are women. A minority of these were women. Aboriginal and national minority women are suffer triple oppression - as workers, as members of First Nations or national minorities and as women. Half of Canadian women have survived at least one incident of sexual or physical violence. Forty-five percent of women assaulted by a male partner suffered physical injury.
Female children are targets of abuse within the family even as the abuse of boys also increases.
Extrapolating from these data, there are close to 509,860 reported and unreported sexual assaults in Canada per year. On a single day in April 1998, over 6,100 women and children were staying in 422 shelters across Canada that offer refuge from violence in the home. About three-quarters of the children were under the age of 10. He did not mention the intelligence activities surrounding the preparations for the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, although it is the object of multiple police force operations with new structures of cooperation and exchange of information between them. He also did not mention the newly created criminal information database shared by all police forces in Canada or the demand of the government of Quebec that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms be changed to allow prosecution of individuals on the basis of membership to a specific group.