Justice committee  First, I want to acknowledge you, Ms. Khalid. I know you did participate in the “Me too” campaign. I think it's a direct message of solidarity to women victims of sexual assault, and so I appreciate that. I think my friend Elizabeth Sheehy explained at length about the problem w

Justice committee  I would say four things. First, I think there needs to be support services, independent transition houses, and rape crisis centres funded by the state, while independently operated by women, so on every reserve and in every rural place women can immediately get safety, support, a

Justice committee  I think it's true, but as Liz Sheehy said on behalf of the Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre, we share the same position as other women's groups. In general, the current system actually does not work. The Alberta Court of Appeal judgment that was released a few months ago ordering a new

Justice committee  Probably Liz Sheehy can respond to that too, but I think that's the wrong codification. If the legislator is interested in setting a lot of examples of what incapability means, that will be helpful, but to raise the threshold is dangerous.

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Thank you. I'm hoping my accent will be clearer in the beginning. The women who work in a rape crisis centre did not need the “Me too” campaign to know how common it is for women to experience sexual assault and rape. Being a girl and a woman in this world means we are likely

Justice committee  About the appearance of youth, it's obvious, and we know this not only from the women who call our front-line, 24-hour, crisis line, but also from our own members who are women who have been in the sex industry in strip bars and prostitution, and exited prostitution. The majority

Justice committee  Of course, it's based on criminal exploitation, but unlike violence against women, we do not have the problem of social phenomena, of women using their political, economic, and social power in the world to control men; otherwise, it's true.

Justice committee  Through the hearings and beyond we heard a few opinions that criminalizing the men—the buyers and the johns—will put women in more danger, and Françoise, based on your Twitter last night, I am worried that you accept these opinions. Those who made this claim called for a harm red

Status of Women committee  Of course, my country, Israel, is doing the same, through its occupation, to the Palestinian people. The problem is that the colonialist force still has the power, and there is no international accountability, because of the alliances between the strong, powerful countries, to st

Status of Women committee  Yes, I think men are committing violence against women. White men, men from all kinds of races, aboriginal men--they are killing, raping, and beating aboriginal women. But the government is colluding. As long as the government is providing women with impoverishing welfare rates,

Status of Women committee  We don't have a formal relationship. We're not interested in that.

Status of Women committee  Libby, I want to encourage you to ask those officers who will be coming today, because on Friday the VPD had a big community meeting, and they tried to brag that only in the downtown east side there were 666 reported cases, and they showed what happens before they get before the

Status of Women committee  I've been here five years. I cannot speak to why it was not an issue on the government agenda before that. It's just ongoing colonizing and indifference towards aboriginal women. It's just a symptom.

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, I want to correct you. It's true that all the services--