Woman or girl killed every 2½ days: femicide report

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Resumo

TLDRA recent report on femicide in Canada reveals alarming statistics: a woman or girl was killed every 2.5 days in 2022, totaling 148 deaths. The report indicates that over 90% of the accused were men and highlights the disproportionate impact on Indigenous women, who make up 36% of the victims despite being only 5% of the population. Advocates Julie Lalonde and Myrna Dawson discuss the need for systemic change, emphasizing the importance of addressing toxic masculinity and engaging all genders in conversations about violence prevention. They stress that awareness alone is not enough; true social change requires collective action and a shift in societal attitudes towards violence against women.

Conclusões

  • 📊 A woman or girl is killed every 2.5 days in Canada.
  • 👨‍⚖️ Over 90% of accused in femicide cases are men.
  • 🌍 Indigenous women represent 36% of femicide victims.
  • 💔 Systemic discrimination affects Indigenous women significantly.
  • 🗣️ Awareness must lead to action for social change.
  • 👩‍🏫 Education on healthy relationships is crucial.
  • 🤝 Everyone must be involved in prevention efforts.
  • 🚫 Male entitlement is a key issue in violence against women.
  • 🗳️ Femicide should be a federal election issue.
  • 💪 Advocates stress the importance of collective action.

Linha do tempo

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    A new report reveals alarming statistics about femicide in Canada, indicating that a woman or girl was killed every two and a half days in the previous year, totaling 148 victims. The report highlights that over 90% of the accused are men and aims to address the unique circumstances surrounding women's violent deaths to implement preventive measures. Experts Julie Lalonde and Myrna Dawson discuss the implications of these findings, emphasizing the need for societal change and awareness of systemic issues, particularly regarding Indigenous women who represent a disproportionate percentage of victims. They stress the importance of engaging both men and women in conversations about violence prevention and the need to challenge harmful attitudes and stereotypes that perpetuate violence against women. The discussion also touches on the role of male entitlement and the necessity for these issues to be addressed in political discourse.

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Vídeo de perguntas e respostas

  • What is the average rate of femicide in Canada?

    A woman or girl was killed on average every 2.5 days in Canada last year.

  • What percentage of accused in femicide cases are men?

    Over 90% of the accused in femicide cases were men.

  • What is the representation of Indigenous women in femicide statistics?

    Indigenous women represent 36% of women and girls killed, despite being only 5% of the population.

  • What do advocates suggest to prevent femicide?

    Advocates suggest raising awareness, addressing toxic masculinity, and engaging both men and women in discussions about violence prevention.

  • What is the significance of the report's findings?

    The report aims to highlight the unique circumstances and motivations behind women's violent deaths to implement effective prevention measures.

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    there's a new startling report out today
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    it's about femicide
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    in canada and it reveals this in our
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    country
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    last year a woman or girl was killed on
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    average
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    every two and a half days that's 148
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    women and girls killed
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    there were 133 incidents 140
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    people were accused in those death and
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    here's another number
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    more than 90 percent of the accused were
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    men
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    the report's goal is to acknowledge that
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    the circumstances
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    and motivations surrounding women's
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    violent deaths are different from those
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    of men and that way
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    measures can be put in place to prevent
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    them from
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    happening to dive deeper into this to
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    look at how we can
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    turn the tide i'm joined by two women
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    who know this subject very well
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    in our nation's capital we've got
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    women's right rights advocate
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    julie lalonde hello to you julie can you
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    hear me yes
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    great and in guelph we have uh the
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    studies lead author
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    mirna dawson myrna hello to you and
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    thank you for joining us today
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    good afternoon thank you for inviting me
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    i want to ask you
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    i wasn't surprised when i read this i
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    supposed about the big theory that you
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    know there were so many women killed
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    perhaps by the you know one every two
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    and a half days
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    but let me ask you this myrna were you
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    what surprised you
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    when you finally collated all the
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    evidence you put together
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    well this has probably been one of the
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    most common questions that i've actually
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    been asked today and i i'm
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    unfortunately happy to say that nothing
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    actually surprised me
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    um i think we we've been doing this work
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    for a couple of decades as have many
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    women who have been working with
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    um people who are experiencing violence
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    in their lives and so we know the extent
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    of it i think
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    what was profoundly impacting however as
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    a researcher is to was to actually
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    look at these cases as they were
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    happening in real time often what we do
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    in research is we
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    are far removed from from these cases
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    and here
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    in 2018 every second day or every second
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    or third day we get up and there was
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    another woman or
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    girl child killed and so that was very
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    impactful the surprise at the at the
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    actual numbers was not a surprise
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    unfortunately julie your initial
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    reaction when you read some of the
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    numbers in this report
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    as an advocate i've spent the last 15
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    years repeating the stat that we had for
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    so long which was
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    a woman was killed every five to six
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    days and so it's quite startling to say
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    actually it's closer to every two and a
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    half and even just myself as an advocate
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    hearing myself say that
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    and and seeing the impact the way it
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    lands in a room i mean that is
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    horrific and i think as myrna said to
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    really be able to
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    track that and to map it and to see it
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    laid out like that in black and white i
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    think makes it
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    hard to ignore what was hard for me to
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    ignore and one of the things that really
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    stood out for me
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    were those stats on indigenous women and
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    we've got them
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    to show our viewers indigenous women are
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    only five percent of the population
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    yet they represent 36 percent
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    of women and girls who are killed
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    myrna that not only surprises me but it
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    makes my heart
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    stop you know it makes me think
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    does anyone wish to be an indigenous
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    woman in canada when there are so many
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    issues
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    what's behind that statistics myrna
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    well okay so a couple of things i want
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    to sort of go back to the number
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    on one um one woman every 2.5 days so
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    i want to clarify that this report
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    captures all women and girls killed
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    regardless of the gender of the accused
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    and so that's the one every 2.5 days
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    to my knowledge the one every six days
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    is referring to women who are killed by
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    a current or former male partner
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    so it's not that we've seen this huge
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    significant
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    increase it's that there's different
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    comparisons going on here but as you
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    said as we started
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    over 90 percent of those women were
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    killed by male accused and so i think
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    that's that's important to remember
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    with respect to the situation um with
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    indigenous women and girls i think that
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    who anyone who wants to suggest that
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    there's no systemic racism or
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    discrimination
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    in our society should then say i want to
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    be an indigenous women
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    i don't think anybody can say that and i
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    think one of the things that was very
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    impactful even though i understand and
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    am aware of the issue with missing and
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    murdered indigenous women as most of us
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    should be by now
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    and that we have the inquiry ongoing is
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    it is really
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    i really feel that that women and girls
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    indigenous women girls are under siege
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    and i think it has to do with systemic
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    discrimination ongoing impacts of
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    colonization that are just not being
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    recognized by our canadian society
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    julie people listening at home and and
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    women might be thinking
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    okay i go to bed tonight i go to bed
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    tomorrow night i'm going to wake up and
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    there's another girl or a woman killed
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    in canada
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    so what do we do about it i suppose you
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    know these reports and these stats and
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    the numbers
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    lead us to talk but do they lead us to a
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    solution
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    what are your thoughts yeah raising
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    awareness is not the same thing as
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    creating social change
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    and as an educator i'm deeply concerned
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    about these statistics but i'm also
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    really motivated to do true prevention
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    and the first thing we have to realize
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    is that
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    the vast majority of violence against
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    women can be prevented but i think
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    the reaction that for example the
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    gillette add around masculinity
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    the number of people who are outraged by
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    us even daring to talk about the role of
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    masculinity
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    tells you that we have a lot of work to
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    do if we can't even talk about
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    uh the role of men when in this case
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    what do we have work to do with
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    do we have work to do with women or do
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    we have work to do with men because
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    i have posed this question to men in my
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    circle of friends
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    to find out what their reaction was and
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    it was mixed and i was actually
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    surprised that it was
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    on that particular toxic masculinity ad
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    so
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    are we if we talk to women are we
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    preaching to the converted
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    i think we can do work with women around
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    self-esteem around women supporting
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    other women
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    and challenging what we call lateral
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    violence which is women blaming other
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    women when they experience violence
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    absolutely i do that work and it's very
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    fulfilling
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    but we absolutely have to have
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    conversations with young men and boys
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    and talk about healthy relationships
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    entitlement um because that's the root
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    cause of this problem
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    what we're talking about and if we can't
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    even have a conversation at a really
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    quite frankly i mean this is a
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    capitalistic 101 level the gillette ad
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    and people just
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    went ballistic i think that tells you
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    that we have a lot of work to do
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    murder let me bring you in on this
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    conversation what does that tell you
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    in terms of the work we have to do i
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    think in response to your question about
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    who do we have to work with my response
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    is everybody
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    men women boys and girls and i think you
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    know the work that julie does as an
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    educator is so important because one of
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    the things that
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    has been recognized is that it's the
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    ongoing damaging
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    attitudes beliefs and stereotypes around
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    violence against women that actually
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    perpetuates and maintains the rates of
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    killing and the rates of non-lethal
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    violence against women and girls that we
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    see
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    those attitudes that minimize it or
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    blame the victim because she didn't
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    leave or suggest that these are normal
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    normal elements of an intimate
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    relationship when someone when a man
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    texts a girl
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    10 times 15 times 20 times 100 times a
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    day to find out where she is these are
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    not
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    normal behaviors and so i think we need
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    to work with everyone
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    including the people who are working
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    within the sector and in particular in
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    the criminal justice system that are
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    responding to these i think we all have
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    um some work that we need to do in
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    analyzing some of these damaging
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    attitudes
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    i get your point about we don't have to
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    talk to just one particular segment of
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    society not just women not just girls
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    not just men not just boys but everybody
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    sometimes that feels like a lot to chew
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    on though
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    and then you kind of stop doing it
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    because it's like how do i affect
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    everybody
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    so julie can you even though myrna i do
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    appreciate your point and i'm not taking
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    umbrage with it but we ran out of time
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    unfortunately julie
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    what advice would you give to that
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    particular sector we talked about
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    you know speaking in particular to to
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    men and
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    young men what would be the message that
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    you would share as a young woman
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    yourself on this particular topic that
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    women don't owe you anything
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    women don't owe you a second date women
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    don't owe you to send you their nude
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    photos women don't owe you
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    to come back to you even though you
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    think that you've changed and you become
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    good people
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    i mean we have to talk about male
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    entitlement and that you know so many of
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    these cases are about men
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    feeling like their ego was bruised
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    because a woman left them or a woman was
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    fighting for custody of their children
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    we have to talk about male entitlement
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    and it's an election year
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    and i really want to put it out there to
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    people to say if we want this to be a
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    federal election issue then we
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    have to make it an election issue i'm
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    going to take that to heart because we
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    are doing a lot of election coverage
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    here on cbc news network as a public
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    broadcaster leading into
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    october of this year and i think that's
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    a really interesting
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    panel discussion that we could have
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    about not only women
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    and their voices but women and their
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    voices in politics i want to thank you
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    both for your time
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    you're fascinating julie lalonde is a
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    women's right
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    rights advocate she is in ottawa and
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    myrna dawson is the study's lead author
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    in guelph
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    goodbye to you both thank you very much
Etiquetas
  • femicide
  • Canada
  • violence against women
  • Indigenous women
  • toxic masculinity
  • systemic change
  • advocacy
  • gender equality
  • prevention
  • social change