Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
Pat Freeman Marshall: Zero tolerance (Canada)
"We have the right to full citizenship. We have the right to life, security of the person, to equal benefit and protection of the law."
"Those with the power to investigate, to prosecute, to adjudicate the crimes of violence perpetrated by men have done so, so often, through the filter of ignorance and compounded by the filters of bias, of gender and race and class bias, of heterosexism and bias against those with disabilities."
"Women and children in Canada have paid a terrible price for the priority given in our country to the prevention of property crime. Guess whose priority that was."
"Imagine how different life could be, it certainly would be in our country, if hiring criteria and appointments criteria for hiring police or appointing judges included demonstrated understanding of equality issues and demonstrated understanding of the dynamics of violence."
Patricia Freeman Marshall is the author of the Changing the landscape: ending violence, achieving equality report for the Canadian Panel on Violence against Women, of which she was appointed co-chair in 1991.
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