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House Hansard - 294

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 22, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 294 - Mar/22/24
Mrs. Cathay Wagantall
  • Mar/22/24 10:22:57 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I am being general at this point in answering the member's question, but women do face disproportional violence in every segment of our society. This needs to change. I think what frustrates me the most is that the government is picking and choosing where and how that might take place. In other situations, as an example, when a woman who is pregnant faces an attack by a third party and she is injured or the life inside her is injured or killed, the government chose to ignore doing something that we could do. That was to bring in a requirement of recognition of that by the judge who is in the process of sentencing. Therefore, we are not even talking about determining whether there was a crime committed. That has already been determined, yet the government chose not to respond to that opportunity. There are a number of them that I would like to speak to, but I believe we agree that women in this country and around the world should be protected from violence far more than they are.
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