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Justice committee I think I will go back to what we said, and you'll get that afterwards, in French as recommendations and in English as speaking notes—we work bilingually. This idea that some of us are marginalized in different ways is what we need to understand. We also need to understand that m
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Karine Myrgianie Jean-François
Justice committee I would add that everything that Rosel said is right, but sometimes discrepancies happen because of the way our brain works and because of what we remember. It can also be the way we talk to different people, in that the way you talk to your friend or the way that you talk to a p
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Karine Myrgianie Jean-François
Justice committee For me, this is really important. We often talk about intersectionality these days. We think about black women, indigenous women, women with disabilities and trans women, but some of us are not just one. Some of us live those different things. It's important to go back to what Ro
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Karine Myrgianie Jean-François
Justice committee I'm going to add something, and I think Rosel could add to it as well. Something that's very important to understand is with regard to part of the criteria that judges use to understand who can give consent and who can tell the truth. Also, how do we talk about consent? When we
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Karine Myrgianie Jean-François
Justice committee Currently, as far as I understand, there's.... Sorry, I'm going to have to answer in French. When a case involves a vulnerable person, this aggravating factor is taken into account in sentencing. Something is already in place for that, but we are not here to say that we necessar
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Karine Myrgianie Jean-François
Justice committee Thank you for these extra few seconds. We will circulate the other information later. We recommend that the training start from an intersectional analysis to deconstruct the myths and stereotypes about women with disabilities and deaf women victims of sexual assault. For claus
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Karine Myrgianie Jean-François