Much of this abuse is due to an excess of political correctness and multiculturalism (versus "melting pot") Canadians are too naive and ignorant of the customs and culture of other countries and think that "respect" of another's beliefs is absolute not relative.
Dave

I like many other Canadians are tired of all these immigrants not becoming Canadian and respecting the Canadian way of life. We should stop all immigration.

I'm glad the focus is going to finally turn where it is necessary, as opposed to vilifying every male on this planet for the actions of a remote few.

However, it is still peppered with the feminist control propaganda we've gotten quite sick of over the last 40 years. Stick to the issue, this isn't a Christmas tree to hang every wing nut's wish list to.

As for the shelters, there are a lot. You just have to kick the crackhead abusive women out to make room and Bob (Roberta?)'s your uncle. Or aunt...or tranny, or whatever.

kthx

Canada lets political correctness rule to the point where freedom of religion rules everything including primitive beliefs which fuel violence against woman. Our government needs to be much more vocal to all immigrants that if they chose to come to our country they must respect our laws and beliefs. I see mini gettos forming in Canada which almost go completely by their own rules.

IMO things are going to get worse not better unless we take hard stance against aspects of other cultures and religions which go against our Canadian values.

Part of the problem, which is not discussed here, is the internalized racism which can come out of law enforcement.
This prevents immigrant people (particularly women) from contacting the police as they may be viewed as racist and counter-productive.

Some of the worst violence against immigrant women can be found on your computer. Just go to Craigslist, click erotic services, and hundreds of contacts for sexual services will appear. If you call a few of the numbers, you will soon realize that most of them are answered by asian males. These are nothing more than places where immigrant women are held against their will and forced into sexual slavery. They are enticed into coming to Canada for some legitimate work, then when they arrive, their passports are taken, and their families back home are threatened if the police are notified. SEXUAL SLAVERY IS ALIVE AND THRIVING IN CANADA.

Its interesting the minister says "honor killings have no place in Canada". It is just plain stupid to start categorizing murders in the criminal code. Also, provinces are free to ignore the criminal code if they wish to. For example Saskatchewan allows, promotes and even sanctions polygamy in their family courts, which is a crime according to the criminal code. They use section 51 of their family property act to justify judicial sanctioning of polygamy.So, any province might just "adjust" their laws against murder with legislation that allows it?

Domestic violence and "honour" killings are as much a part of White Canada as they are of immigrant communities. Any attempt to fob this off as un-Canadian is to ignore the scores of White women killed by their spouses every year, see the Statistics Canada Report in 2007 for all the details you can use. www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-224-x/85-224-x2007000-eng.pdf

When a White man kills his partner/family member, it's domestic homicide. When a Brown man kills his partner/family member, it is an honour killing. This is an artificial distinction that serves no one, especially the immigrant community which is now set apart as backward and un-Canadian, even though all statistics show that violence against women exercised as a form of power and control is as Canadian as hockey!

@Krystal

First, your post has a logic error, i.e. if racism is shown by law enforcement, then it isn't internalized, by definition.

Secondly, women from many immigrant countries don't fear the "racism" of Canadian police. They fear the impunity, violence, arbitrariness, corruption, indifference, and misogyny of the police that they knew at home. Except in the industrialized west, it is pointless or even dangerous to complain of spousal abuse against men. In countries that follow sharia law, a woman's evidence is legally half the weight of a man's. In countries with authoritarian, masculine-dominated traditions -- which is, let's face it, all of them -- women's rights are only now becoming vaguely recognized.

@ BC

thanks for your comments. Intelligent and based on facts, unlike the ignorant bigots whose comments precede your.

The group that Aruna Papp works for, The Frontier Centre for Public Policy, is a rightwing neoconservative western Canada based "think"-tank (pun intended). It's policies are just what the KKKonservative party and its leader Herr Harper profess.