Georgina First Nations advocate cautiously applauds murdered and missing women inquiry – YorkRegion.com

August 10, 2016

When Suzanne Smoke’s 14-year-old First Nations cousin, Patricia Carpenter, was found dead in Toronto 24 years ago, her family feared she had been murdered, believing police were too quick to rule the case death by misadventure instead.

As Smoke thinks of her daughter, Cedar, she worries the 17-year-old has a nine-times greater chance of being the victim of violence than the average Canadian.

And she bristles at the memory of going into a Georgina coffee shop one morning two years ago, only to be verbally assaulted by a man asking if she was picking up a coffee because it was too early for the liquor store to be open.

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