Canada calls gender violence an epidemic after triple femicide inquest

Source: The Guardian

Canada calls gender violence an epidemic after triple femicide inquest

Exclusive: government’s response also indicates Canada intends to criminalise coercive control, a form of intimate partner violence

Tracey Lindeman in Ottawa
Wed 16 Aug 2023 18.13 BST
Last modified on Wed 16 Aug 2023 18.22 BST

Gender-based violence is an “epidemic” that “has no place in our country”, Canada’s new justice minister has said in a letter delivered in response to a public inquest into a triple femicide in rural Ontario.

The six-page letter dated 14 August – the federal government’s official response to last summer’s inquest – also indicates Canada intends to pursue the criminalisation of coercive control, a form of intimate partner violence intended to isolate, intimidate and control victims.

The letter was the federal government’s first public response after the jury at the inquest for three murdered women issued 86 recommendations calling for sweeping reforms to Canada’s approach to femicide.

The inquest was convened last summer to examine the circumstances that enabled Basil Borutski to kill three women – Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam – on a single morning in 2015.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/16/canada-criminalize-coercive-control-gender-violence

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