To the editor:
Premier Christy Clark and her women colleagues seem content to have the menfolk (i.e., Oppal, the police and Crown) determine what happened and what to do about missing and murdered women. Aboriginal and women's communities are deemed an unnecessary expense. Takes one back to the creation of the Indian Act, no "Indians" or women present at that table, either. The Atira/B.C. Housing/city council axis suggests the Chicago-way of doing municipal business. If the best the women councillors might offer young girls are rooms in the dangerous Downtown Eastside, supervised by two house moms found on Craigslist, then another legislative body of women politicians are abdicating their responsibilities, which speaks to the shameful silence and ineffectiveness of the current elected women's community. They need to find their voice, their caring and their courage--or be replaced.
Cleta Brown,
Vancouver
