Keep in mind the former *excuse me*, movie critic, is Torstar/CBC born and bred and now brightening the day of Now's subway-riding droolers...classy <implying> pic too but then again she's one of the Mad Harpers. :lol:
From barbaric cultural practices and honour killings to the long gun registry, the feds are turning their backs on women trapped in dangerous situations
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Harper’s zero tolerance for women
From barbaric cultural practices and honour killings to the long gun registry, the feds are turning their backs on women trapped in dangerous situations
by Antonia *Zerbisias
November 12, 2014
5:14 PM
I had to laugh last week when Chris Alexander, Stephen Harper’s minister of citizenship and immigration, barked something about “barbaric acts” being imported into Canada.
Not because I found his proposed Zero Tolerance For Barbaric Cultural Practices Act funny, although it may well top the list of Orwellian names for legislation introduced by the Conservatives.
It’s because murdering a woman, whether she didn’t have supper on the table after he was out drinking with the boys, whether she talked back, whether she packed up the kids and left, is already against the law in Canada.
Statistics show that these are among the reasons most women who are killed by their partners. They disobeyed. They disrespected. They departed. They “dishonoured.”
Femicide is femicide whether you’re brown or white.
But not to this government, which sees so-called “honour killings” as somehow different from the 70 or so annual murders of women by their partners here every year. In fact, this is a government not particularly open to women fleeing from gender violence in their home countries.
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From barbaric cultural practices and honour killings to the long gun registry, the feds are turning their backs on women trapped in dangerous situations
Home News Features Harper’s zero tolerance for women
Harper’s zero tolerance for women
From barbaric cultural practices and honour killings to the long gun registry, the feds are turning their backs on women trapped in dangerous situations
by Antonia *Zerbisias
November 12, 2014
5:14 PM
I had to laugh last week when Chris Alexander, Stephen Harper’s minister of citizenship and immigration, barked something about “barbaric acts” being imported into Canada.
Not because I found his proposed Zero Tolerance For Barbaric Cultural Practices Act funny, although it may well top the list of Orwellian names for legislation introduced by the Conservatives.
It’s because murdering a woman, whether she didn’t have supper on the table after he was out drinking with the boys, whether she talked back, whether she packed up the kids and left, is already against the law in Canada.
Statistics show that these are among the reasons most women who are killed by their partners. They disobeyed. They disrespected. They departed. They “dishonoured.”
Femicide is femicide whether you’re brown or white.
But not to this government, which sees so-called “honour killings” as somehow different from the 70 or so annual murders of women by their partners here every year. In fact, this is a government not particularly open to women fleeing from gender violence in their home countries.
more
Harper’s zero tolerance for women - NOW Magazine
