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I’ve spent 36 years witnessing women in Canada being hung out to dry by CAS and the courts. I no longer see the system as broken, but working exactly as intended, to maintain control of women. It’s a matter of educating police, judges and CAS.”īack then, I believed my own words.

In the early years of my work, when women would ask me, “How is this happening when we are the victims of unremitting cruelty? How is it that our abusers are running the show?”, I’d say, “I’m sorry. Anastasia Kuzyk, Nathalie Warmerdam and Carol Culleton I apologize when their children are murdered on access visits.Īnd when they themselves are murdered, I apologize to their families. I apologize when they are forced to hand over their children to men who have brutalized them-because the courts don’t think how a man treats the mother of his kids has any bearing on his parenting. I apologize when they are imprisoned for defending themselves against domestic terrorism.

I apologize when their rapists are not charged. I apologize when their batterers are released with a slap on the wrist, freed to wreak more havoc in their lives. If I’m to be honest, I’ve spent the last 36 years apologizing to women. I’d like to begin my remarks with an apology to the families of the three women murdered in Renfrew County on the morning of September 22, 2015. *Note: This version of the speech contains slight alterations I used to work at Lanark County Interval House and was invited to say a few words. Last week, a newly-formed action committee, What Now, Lanark County? hosted a community meeting to discuss the inquest and its implications for the work of ending male violence going forward. In June 2022 a coroner’s jury examining their deaths made 86 recommendations for femicide prevention. On the morning of September 22, 2015, Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam were murdered in their homes in Renfrew County, Ontario by a man who knew all three women. Femicide is a feature, not a bug, of patriarchy.