Justice committee  Definitely. We need more education. We need ongoing education, I'd say at the school level. One of the things we have heard is, whatever I learned, I learned in kindergarten—and even in homes. I look at our spiritual places, our temples, our churches. These are places that ca

Justice committee  I think if I had been believed.... Even when I showed the police the gun, my husband sweet-talked them. I wasn't a credible witness. They told me that I was very hyper. I don't know what the new laws will be, but I think whether it's new laws or old laws, you have to start tak

Justice committee  He kept getting away with it. He was more believable than I was. Yes, abuse isn't just against women. There are very good men out there. There are male victims as well.

Justice committee  There isn't a proper crime bill to ensure when we report sexual abuse, physical abuse, even death.... We've seen the crime doesn't fit the punishment. We need to know when we're reporting, it's going to be taken seriously and we will have protection. Not just a piece of paper tha

Justice committee  Good to see you, Kerry. That situation I was describing happened in a doctor's office with the doctor's and my husband's involvement. The doctor believed everything my husband was telling him because he was more vocal than I was. My silence was perceived to be that I was hiding

Justice committee  It certainly does because now you have the children to think about. Often children don't want to leave the comforts of their home. They don't want to leave daddy. They love daddy, they just don't love what he does, and so it makes it equal.... As you know from my story, I have f

Justice committee  I had no choice. I was 18. Being a cultural Indo-Canadian woman, my marriage was arranged. If that was my daughter I would let her get to know the person first. I was engaged and we married the week after I'd met him. Going forward, I educate young girls never to get into that.

Justice committee  Thank you for your questions. There's tons for me to unpack. The first thing is to be believed. Every victim wants to be believed. If there is doubt.... When the police first came to me, they would ask me questions such as, “What did you do? What happened? How did you provoke him

Justice committee  Madam Chair, thank you for your kind invitation to speak. Today I will be referring to the victim as “she” and the abuser as “he”. I wonder how many times we have heard these words spoken to us: “If it was that bad, why didn't you just leave?” Today I feel compelled to share