Thank you for that.
Evidence of meeting #110 for Status of Women in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was family.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #110 for Status of Women in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was family.
A recording is available from Parliament.
5:30 p.m.
Conservative
5:30 p.m.
NDP
Leah Gazan NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB
Thank you so much, Chair.
It's very clear to me, listening to the testimony, that we focus on punishment. However, if we're really serious about eradicating gender-based violence, we hear, meeting after meeting, that we need affordable housing with rent geared to income, that we need a national child care program and that we need a guaranteed livable basic income. I think we know the solutions. We just lack the political will sometimes to push them forward.
Professor Chambers, you were talking about the profile of abusers.
I'm wondering if you can expand on that, because we're talking about issues in the criminal justice system, especially for BIPOC folks. I know that in Winnipeg, the last ones, who weren't formally convicted—and a case that's currently happening, serial killers, in fact—were white males. I'm wondering if you can speak further to the profile, knowing that the impact of violence is found in all cultures and groups, but the typical, more prominent profile of somebody....
Go ahead.
5:35 p.m.
Professor, Lakehead University, As an Individual
The serial killer and mass casualty incident people are overwhelmingly white men with some level of privilege. They're not your most disadvantaged people.
BIPOC people are much more likely to be subject to criminal sanction. White men who practise these behaviours with their intimate partners for years before they engage in serial killing or mass casualty incidents don't get called out, don't get considered to be violent, because they are protected by the system that targets other men, so their partners are at risk when those behaviours are missed.
5:35 p.m.
NDP
Leah Gazan NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB
This is concerning for me, because I do know that we have systemic racism.
5:35 p.m.
NDP
Leah Gazan NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB
It's predominant, which is why I am concerned about criminalizing coercive control. If you look at profiles of abusers, you see that they have historically been protected by systems.
Would you agree with that?
5:35 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Shelby Kramp-Neuman
Thank you, Leah.
That will conclude our second panel.
On behalf of the committee, I would like to thank all of the witnesses for appearing and providing their testimonies.
I would remind all members that we will start studying version one of the report on the red dress alert, which will be distributed to everyone today.
Other than that, is the committee in agreement to adjourn the meeting?
5:35 p.m.
Some hon. members
Agreed.
5:35 p.m.
Conservative
