Meanwhile, women like Natasha Cournoyer, who went missing in Laval Thursday, Oct. 1, get front-page play days after their disappearance, and thousands of dollars are offered in reward money. It was months before the media outside of Kahnawake broadcast Tiffany’s case.
Legitimate cases are not helped by the fact that 80 per cent of the 8,196 missing person cases reported to Quebec police in 2008 – an average of 22 a day – involve runaways, 86 per cent of whom turn up in the first week.
A study by the Canadian Native Women’s Association of Canada documented 520 cases of missing or murdered aboriginal women since 1980, more than three-quarters of which remain unresolved. If a proportionate number of white women were missing, said association president Beverly Jacobs, “you’d be looking at 18,000 cases.”
Even if the person is a prostitute or addict, it shouldn’t make a difference, said Kary-Ann Deer of the Quebec association.

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