{"id":21754,"date":"2021-09-27T13:15:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/?post_type=news&p=21754"},"modified":"2021-09-28T14:34:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T18:34:45","slug":"leaf-calls-on-federal-government-to-revise-proposed-online-harms-regulation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/news\/leaf-calls-on-federal-government-to-revise-proposed-online-harms-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAF calls on Federal Government to revise proposed online harms regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

September 27, 2021<\/strong> – The Federal Government must create a regulatory framework specifically aimed at technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), says the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, LEAF provided a submission<\/a> to Canadian Heritage on the Federal Government’s proposed approaches to address harmful content online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While LEAF supports the development of a federal regulatory framework to address the growing issue of TFGBV, it does not support the Federal Government’s proposed \u00ab\u00a0online harms\u00a0\u00bb framework. The framework poses serious concerns from a substantive equality and human rights perspective. It also risks exacerbating existing inequalities, particularly because it purports to deal with five very different \u201conline harms\u201d with a single approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LEAF urges the government to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Revise the regulatory framework to explicitly recognize substantive equality and human rights as guiding principles;<\/li>
  2. Provide more immediate and direct support to victims experiencing TFGBV;<\/li>
  3. Provide alternative remedies to those provided through law enforcement and the criminal justice process;<\/li>
  4. Recognize forms of TFGBV that are not currently captured by the criminal law; and<\/li>
  5. Ensure responses are tailored to and account for the specific harms of TFGBV.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    You can read and download the submission here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Media Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Rosel Kim
    Staff Lawyer, LEAF
    r.kim@leaf.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    About\u202fthe Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)<\/strong>\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) is a national not-for-profit that works to advance gender equality in Canada through litigation,\u202flaw reform,\u202fand public legal education.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Since 1985, LEAF has intervened in more than 100 cases that have helped shape the\u202fCanadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms<\/em>,\u202fresponded to\u202fviolence against women and gender diverse people,\u202fpushed\u202fback against\u202fdiscrimination in the workplace, allowed access to reproductive freedoms, and provided improved maternity benefits, spousal support, and the right to pay equity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    LEAF understands that women and gender diverse individuals in Canada experience discrimination in different\u202fways, and\u202fbuilds partnerships across communities to inform our understanding of how race, gender identity, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, class, and other intersectional identities underlie legal structures that perpetuate inequality, discrimination, and harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[422,457,423],"class_list":["post-21754","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-law-reform","tag-online-hate","tag-submission"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLEAF calls on Federal Government to revise proposed online harms regulation - LEAF<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Government must create a regulatory framework specifically aimed at technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/news\/leaf-calls-on-federal-government-to-revise-proposed-online-harms-regulation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LEAF calls on Federal Government to revise proposed online harms regulation - 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