This is a disturbing article, Hansard. The has never been an indication of coercive control and worse, femicide in my extended family. I had no idea that femicide statistics were so high. One example of femicide cannot be tolerated by our society. The criminalization of coercive control is key, as the committee identified and changes to bail reform.
Knowledge of this subject is vital, as you stated from the responding police agencies, through to judges to undertake change to protect females in our society. The MMIWG reference is particularly important. Once again, you have reported on important aspects of Canadian society and law. I can’t help but believe the works of committees on important matters is under reported by main stream media and I thank you for bringing this important subject to light. This is another example where there cannot be enough oxygen highlighting this matter.
June, 1987, the release of the Canadian Council on the Status of Women Report, “Battered, But Not Beaten”. Also the month I left home after over a decade of marriage and got a restraining order.
I got myself a copy of the report. Before I finished the first page I was gutted, and couldn’t continue. I wasn’t alone; there were others without visible bruises. I survived, although it took me years to heal and build a new life.
And yet here we are, almost 39 years later, with the same stories of coercive control which seem to be ending more and more frequently in death. We have a new word for it - femicide - because that’s what it is, and the statistics speak for themselves. It is most definitely a national emergency and we need to take national action as the current Standing Committee on the Status of Women recommends in its December 2025 report.
This is a disturbing article, Hansard. The has never been an indication of coercive control and worse, femicide in my extended family. I had no idea that femicide statistics were so high. One example of femicide cannot be tolerated by our society. The criminalization of coercive control is key, as the committee identified and changes to bail reform.
Knowledge of this subject is vital, as you stated from the responding police agencies, through to judges to undertake change to protect females in our society. The MMIWG reference is particularly important. Once again, you have reported on important aspects of Canadian society and law. I can’t help but believe the works of committees on important matters is under reported by main stream media and I thank you for bringing this important subject to light. This is another example where there cannot be enough oxygen highlighting this matter.
Thank you.
June, 1987, the release of the Canadian Council on the Status of Women Report, “Battered, But Not Beaten”. Also the month I left home after over a decade of marriage and got a restraining order.
I got myself a copy of the report. Before I finished the first page I was gutted, and couldn’t continue. I wasn’t alone; there were others without visible bruises. I survived, although it took me years to heal and build a new life.
And yet here we are, almost 39 years later, with the same stories of coercive control which seem to be ending more and more frequently in death. We have a new word for it - femicide - because that’s what it is, and the statistics speak for themselves. It is most definitely a national emergency and we need to take national action as the current Standing Committee on the Status of Women recommends in its December 2025 report.
So sorry Heather!
No worries. I have an amazing life and have been able to help other women find their voices.
C-16
"It amends the Criminal Code to, among other things,
(a) create a new offence that prohibits engaging in a pattern of coercive or controlling conduct toward an intimate partner;
(b) provide that, in the following circumstances, murder — known as femicide when committed against a female person — is murder in the first degree:
(i) the murder is committed against an intimate partner in the context of a pattern of coercive or controlling conduct,
(ii) the murder is committed in the context of sexual violence,
(iii) the murder is committed in the context of human trafficking, or
(iv) the murder is motivated by hate;
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