{"id":18363,"date":"2020-12-04T10:37:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=18363"},"modified":"2020-12-09T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:22:28","slug":"national-day-remembrance-action-2020","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/news\/national-day-remembrance-action-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAF Recognizes the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>December 4, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This December&nbsp;6,&nbsp;LEAF recognizes the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada.&nbsp;On this National Day of Remembrance and Action,&nbsp;we are taking time&nbsp;to reflect on the realities of women&nbsp;who&nbsp;face&nbsp;gender-based violence, and to&nbsp;honour&nbsp;those who&nbsp;have&nbsp;lost their lives&nbsp;to&nbsp;misogyny.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 6, 1989,&nbsp;fourteen women\u2019s lives were cut short by&nbsp;a man&nbsp;who&nbsp;entered an engineering classroom at&nbsp;l\u2019\u00c9cole&nbsp;Polytechnique in Montreal, carrying both a knife and an assault rifle. In that classroom, he separated the women from the men and opened fire on the women, yelling that he hated feminists.&nbsp; His act of terror was fueled by misogyny.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we remember:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Genevi\u00e8ve Bergeron<\/strong><strong>;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Colgan<\/strong><strong>;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Nathalie Croteau<\/strong><strong>;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Barbara Daigneault<\/strong><strong>;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Anne-Marie Edward<\/strong><strong>;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Maud&nbsp;Haviernick<\/strong><strong>;&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Barbara Klucznik&nbsp;Widajewicz<\/strong><strong>;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Maryse&nbsp;Lagani\u00e8re<\/strong><strong>;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Maryse&nbsp;Leclair<\/strong><strong>;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Anne-Marie Lemay<\/strong><strong>;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Sonia Pelletier<\/strong><strong>;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Mich\u00e8le Richard<\/strong><strong>;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Annie St-Arneault<\/strong><strong>; and<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Annie Turcotte<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We also remember those whose&nbsp;lives were taken too soon&nbsp;in&nbsp;April&nbsp;2020 by the mass shooting in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/photos-nova-scotia-shooting-victims-1.5538364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Portapique, Nova Scotia<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;We remember these women and girls alongside the men who were killed:&nbsp;Tom Bagley,&nbsp;Kristen Beaton,&nbsp;Greg Blair,&nbsp;Jamie Blair,&nbsp;Joy Bond,&nbsp;Peter Bond,&nbsp;Corrie Ellison,&nbsp;Gina Goulet,&nbsp;Frank&nbsp;Gulenchyn,&nbsp;Lillian Campbell Hyslop,&nbsp;Alanna Jenkins,&nbsp;Dawn Madsen,&nbsp;Lisa McCully,&nbsp;Sean McLeod,&nbsp;Heather O&rsquo;Brien,&nbsp;Jolene Oliver, Heidi Stevenson,&nbsp;Elizabeth Joanne Thomas,&nbsp;Aaron Tuck,&nbsp;Emily&nbsp;Tuck, Joey Webber, and John Joseph Zahl.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we reflect on the terror that played out&nbsp;31&nbsp;years ago in Montreal, we&nbsp;call for action to address gender-based violence today.&nbsp;Unfortunately, this year, the&nbsp;need for action is&nbsp;more urgent than ever.&nbsp;COVID-19 has&nbsp;exacerbated&nbsp;existing&nbsp;gender inequalities, leaving women, girls and gender diverse people more vulnerable to violence.&nbsp;Organizations providing services to women experiencing violence at home&nbsp;have noted&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/endvaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Shelter-Voices-2020-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increased&nbsp;calls for help<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/london\/national-survey-domestic-violence-end-violence-now-anova-1.5698028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increased severity in violence<\/a>&nbsp;since the pandemic&nbsp;began.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women,&nbsp;girls&nbsp;and gender diverse people&nbsp;deserve to be&nbsp;free from violence, to feel secure, and to have access to supports that enable them to reach their full potential.&nbsp;Federal, provincial, and territorial governments&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;come together to develop and implement a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/endvaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Reissued-Call-NAP-on-VAW.GBV_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Action Plan<\/a>&nbsp;on gender-based violence, which must be grounded in intersectional feminist principles and recognize&nbsp;the diversity of identities and needs of the&nbsp;survivors.&nbsp;Governments must also prioritize&nbsp;the&nbsp;implementation of&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmiwg-ffada.ca\/final-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">231 Calls for Justice<\/a>&nbsp;from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, which have thus far gone&nbsp;unanswered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LEAF will continue to advocate for substantive equality rights for women and girls and speak out against misogyny to&nbsp;end&nbsp;gender-based violence.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) works to advance the substantive equality rights of women and girls through litigation, law reform, and public education. Since 1985, we have intervened in landmark cases that have advanced equality in Canada\u2014helping to prevent violence, eliminate discrimination in the workplace, provide better maternity benefits, ensure a right to pay equity, and allow access to reproductive freedoms.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To support our work to protect the equality rights of women and girls, please consider\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">donating<\/a>\u202ftoday.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[446,434,445],"class_list":["post-18363","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-december-6","tag-gender-based-violence","tag-violence-against-women"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LEAF Recognizes the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada - 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