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Chi Nguyen Liberal
“We need other ways to deal with violence against women, not just the justice system. The court system does not always help survivors heal.”
“Mr. Speaker, one of the testimonies we heard earlier this week at the status of women committee was about the concept of restorative justice and finding other approaches to respond to these challenges. We live in a patriarchal society in which there is a whole host of really challenging views around the place for women, women’s safety and women’s role in our society. We are thinking about other ways to respond here because of the wave of this kind of violence. I want to make sure we recognize that sometimes the justice system is not the right place for the responses we need and it is not the healing that some survivors have asked for.”
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Mr. Speaker, one of the testimonies we heard earlier this week at the status of women committee was about the concept of restorative justice and finding other approaches to respond to these challenges. We live in a patriarchal society in which there is a whole host of really challenging views around the place for women, women’s safety and women’s role in our society. We are thinking about other ways to respond here because of the wave of this kind of violence. I want to make sure we recognize that sometimes the justice system is not the right place for the responses we need and it is not the healing that some survivors have asked for.