Cait Alexander was invited to Ottawa to tell her story of violence against women to a parliamentary committee. Instead, the MPs engaged in political bickering amongst themselves.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.Witnesses walk out as House committee on violence against women descends into partisan bickeringin tears this week after the meeting devolved into bickering says she fears the incident will make it harder for other survivors to come forward.
“That’s why I call it ‘abuse’… because it’s the same gaslighting and minimizing of our experience that makes us not want to come forward.”was called by Conservatives in the middle of the summer parliamentary recess to hear from advocates for domestic violence victims and a deputy chief of the Peel Region Police in light of several recent high-profile cases and newly released crime data from Statistics Canada.
As the procedural debate played out, Alexander and Walker turned their backs on the committee. They then stormed out of the room. Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich said in his region alone, data shows that “a woman is strangled every single day.” He shared details of some of the victims of recent femicides in Peel, which he said account for almost 20 per cent of the 114 homicides so far this year.
was nearly identical compared to 2022 — 205 women killed — despite a 14 per cent drop in total homicide victims over the same period. “We need to be honouring these stories,” said Dalya Israel, executive director of Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre in Vancouver.
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