Cette violence transcende les frontières, la culture, l'appartenance religieuse et la classe socio-économique. Elle touche aussi les communautés autochtones, envers lesquelles le gouvernement fédéral a des responsabilités particulières en raison de la Constitution.
It cuts across boundaries, culture, religious membership, and socio-economic status, and it impacts aboriginal communities, for which the federal government has a special constitutional responsibility, including for the women who live in these communities or who, living outside of these communities, are nonetheless profoundly tied to them.