2023-08-17 16:07:45
The triple feminicide had shaken Canada in 2015. In one morning, Basil Borutski had killed three women – Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam. An investigation was opened last summer to determine the circumstances that allowed the murderer to track down and then kill his victims. In response to the 86 recommendations issued by the jury of the inquest, including calling for radical reform in the area of femicide, the new Canadian Minister of Justice published a letter dated August 14, whose Guardian unveiled the content on Wednesday.
For the Minister and Attorney General, Arif Virani, describes gender-based violence as an epidemic that “has no place in our country”. Strong words that echo the refusal, at the end of June, by the Ontario government to officially declare that violence between intimate partners was an epidemic.
Criminalize coercive control
Furthermore, “the Minister also indicates that Canada intends to criminalize coercive control, a form of violence between intimate partners aimed at isolating, intimidating and controlling the victims”, reports the Guardian. “I welcome the jury’s recommendations and agree that more needs to be done to protect against intimate partner violence,” wrote the Canadian minister.
“I think it’s really important that they talked about an epidemic,” reacted to the British daily Pamela Cross, who was an expert witness during the investigation. “For Ontarians who care about this issue, the provincial government’s refusal to implement that first recommendation – to label intimate partner violence an epidemic – has truly felt like a slap in the face and an insult to everyone affected. “, she added.
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