In this episode we talk with our member Laurel about this year's conviction of a Winnipeg man who murdered four indigenous women and recall some of the outrageous failures in the case of Pickton, a British Columbia man who confessed to murdering 49 women from the downtown eastside of Vancouver. We will also hear from Carolyn Jerome who was part of the “Militant Mothers” and their 1971 fight against the Canadian National Railway.
We urge the committee to call on Canada to denounce and condemn any attempt to intimidate, threat, attack, silence and boycott women’s groups and individual women for speaking up on the unique experience and needs of female born women and girls and remind Canada that the “Attempts to silence women based on the views they hold regarding the scope of gender identity and sex in law and in practice and the rights associated with these, severely affects their participation in society in dignity and in safety, as well as their country’s prosperity and development.”
