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Nunavut justice minister sacked for telling unpopular truth
by Scott Gilbreath ~ January 29th, 2009
Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak has removed the justice portfolio from MLA Louis Tapardjuk because he wrote this in an e-mail to his staff:
“Often, in cases of domestic disputes, both parties share the blame but, according to the Criminal Code, the person who gets physical is charged, even though the other party initiated the conflict,” Tapardjuk wrote.
“Often, the male is charged even though the conflict may have been initiated by the female partner.”
The Canadian Press report quoted above at least includes Mr Tapardjuk’s allegedly controversial words. Neither of the two CBC reports that I have seen could bring themselves to repeat what he actually said.
Premier Aarviak found those words “offensive” but did not dispute the claim that women sometimes initiated domestic violence.
“The comments that he made about violence or the cause of violence were offensive,” Aariak told reporters.
Political correctness trumps truth in Canada’s frozen North. Many studies have shown that domestic violence is frequently initiated by women. What Tapardjuk wrote is “offensive” only because it contradicts feminist dogma.
Barbara Kay writes a scathing column on this nonsense.
Aiiiieeee! Heresy! Poor Mr Tapardchuk apparently forgot or may even be ignorant of the fact that no public figure is allowed to suggest that women are ever, ever the initiators of domestic violence. Women are always, always the victims. Of course this credo, that domestic violence is a one-way-street wherein all violence against women is unprovoked, and all violence against men self-defensive, is a complete myth, a myth that has been busted over and over again, most credibly – one would imagine – by our own Statistics Canada, whose findings in their official reports on domestic violence dovetail with all other peer-reviewed studies: Domestic violence is about one-quarter male-initiated, one quarter female-initiated and half reciprocal.
Unfortunately, Tapardjuk has apologized for his “gaffe”. He should have stood by his original statement.
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January 29th, 2009 at 02:10 PM
Well political correctness cannot be challenged by real stats published by the same bureaucracy that published them.
This link shows that 55% of women are victims of domestic violence and 45% men…..expect men are too chicken to report it and the police don’t do anything about it, so is there a point?
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-224-x/85-224-x2000000-eng.pdf
I am not a feminist or a meninist……domestic violence is WRONG period.
January 29th, 2009 at 05:19 PM
That’s funny… I remember getting chewed out by some feminists in high school for suggesting the opposite: that domestic violence was mainly brought on by men. “Oh, no!” they said. “That’s sexist, and it doesn’t agree with the facts.” The facts, at least, I now accept.
January 29th, 2009 at 06:35 PM
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January 29th, 2009 at 09:05 PM
This chap should simply SUE his government. Most popular notions about domestic violence are skewed if not outright bull! For example, child abusers are equallty divided between the sexes, but women hold the gold medal for psychologicval; abuse of children. Also, as any bar/club owner in the 21st Century will tell you, women incite most of the violence in bars/clubs these days.
It’s time we stopped parroting feminist propogandists and started looking at FACTS.