74th Ontario City Declares Intimate Partner Violence an Epidemic - The Canadian Paradox?

 

The rapid increase in Intimate Partner Violence in the last several years brings Canada in line with the Nordic countries. Trudeau has pushed Canada so far to the left that it has become more liberal than Scandinavia which suffers from something called the Nordic Paradox.

The Nordic Paradox is the fact that Nordic Countries, though the most feminist in the world, also suffer from some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence in the world. This is inexplicable to far-left people, who have no clue as to how a healthy relationship should work, hence, the Paradox. 

There is another paradox in Canadian politics, and that is that Trudeau won the last two federal elections because most women voted for him, and they voted for him because of his far-left policies, and his good looks.

Outside of this blog, Trudeau will probably never be blamed for the increase in intimate partner violence in Canada, but he should be.

City of Peterborough declares intimate partner violence

an epidemic

Advocates in Peterborough are praising the city’s decision to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic.

During Monday’s meeting, city council approved a motion by Coun. Joy Lachica to declare intimate partner violence (IPV) an epidemic. The City of Peterborough is now the 74th municipality in Ontario to declare IPV an epidemic.

The motion acknowledges more than 85 recommendations by a jury following the coroner’s inquest into the 2015 murders of Nathalie Warmerdam, Carol Culleton and Anastasia Kuzyk in Renfrew County to help prevent similar tragedies. Among the recommendations was for Ontario to formally declare IPV an epidemic.

The motion also acknowledges the Mass Casualty Commission, established by the government of Canada and the Nova Scotia government, which stressed the need to end gender-based violence (GBV) in the wake of the mass shooting of 22 people in Nova Scotia in April 2020.

Prior to council’s unanimous approval. Brittany McMillan, executive director of the Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre, and Kim Dolan, executive director of the YWCA Peterborough Haliburton, made a joint presentation to council urging them to endorse the motion.

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Domestic violence ‘an epidemic’: Peterborough Domestic Abuse Network

They highlighted a “snapshot” of 2022 data that showed that only six per cent of survivors of sexual assault in the region reported the assault to police. One in five people experiencing GBV said they called police.

“Eighty per cent of the people don’t report — in our community, that’s over 10,000 people who are victims of gender-based violence last year,” Dolan said.

Peterborough has a population of about 84,000.

McMillan says their organizations are part of the Peterborough Domestic Abuse Network (PDAN) — consisting of more than 30 organizations in Peterborough city and county working to support survivors of domestic abuse.

“We ask that you recognize that a large of number of your constituents are being impacted by violence,” she said.

McMillan said the system of supports is “complex and limited” and notes domestic violence often overlaps with homelessness and the housing crisis across Canada.

“Domestic violence is one of the leading causes of homelessness amongst women and children,” she told council. “And the risk of homelessness is one of the leading barriers for people seeking to leave abusive relationships.”

She says survivors of GBV often identify gaps including a lack of funding for long-term counselling, the need for community education and prevention, notably with youth, and the need for training for services and organizations to know how to intervene and refer survivors to appropriate help.

Coun. Keith Riel says their presentation “resonated” with him.