Article content continuedIt’s been a bad week for survivors and those of us who advocate for survivors. Every time a high-profile case came and went without justice for the survivors we would talk. A man whose wife has been murdered says, “The instant they pulled the trigger I lost my wife, but I joined a club. A big part of that justice is the education of those in the criminal justice system, including the training of judges on issues related to sexual violence. In February 2017, in response to incidents like the Judge Robin Camp case in Calgary, where a judge asked a survivor why she didn’t “keep her knees together,” then-interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Rona Ambrose, introduced a bill mandating sexual violence training for judges.

Source: National Post August 07, 2020 10:07 UTC