Cait Alexander:
End Violence Everywhere.org

Cait Alexander:
“This country (Canada) has become a graveyard
of preventable deaths (from violence).

Cait Alexander is a Canadian actress, musician, songwriter, human rights advocate, and founder of EVE, End Violence Everywhere, a non-profit to support survivors of domestic violence.

Cait is now known for a landmark lawsuit against the Canadian government that seeks justice ffor more than 2 dozen plaintiffs who have been victimized by the court system failing to protect them against sexual abuse, intimate partner violence.

Cait Alexander experienced extreme domestic violence at the hands of her partner, and when she charged him—with irrefutable evidence—the case was stayed, because of the Supreme Court’s 2016 R. v. Jordan decision. Because of that law, her former partner is free. Cait moved out of the country.

R. v. Jordan’s Law is a Supreme Court decision that if court cases aren’t tried within certain amount of time they become stayed or dismissed. The time limits are 18 months for provincial court trials and 30 months for superior court trials (or provincial court trials after a preliminary inquiry).

Cait’s former partner had 8 criminal charges in the provincial and the Superior Court, and due to the Supreme Court of Canada amending the charter of rights in 2016 under the Trudeau government, they allow trials and charges to be stayed regardless of the evidence.

Cait is suing the Canadian government, along with more than a dozen other survivors, with lawyer, Kathryn Marshall of Toronto, who is working on this pro-bono.

Cait Alexander at the Status of Women Committee

‘Graveyard of preventable deaths’: IPV survivors sue Canadian government

Thank you, Cait, for your sacred work standing for women everywhere and creating a non-profit to support survivors: www.endviolenceeverywhere.org

• almost 50% of women experience sexual assault
• 1 in 10 high school students have experienced physical violence from a dating partner
• 94% of women who are raped experience symptoms of PTSD during the 2 weeks following
• 5,712 reports of Murdered & Missing Indigenous women & girls
• 1 in 3 men experience IPV (intimate partner violence) during their lifetime
• 40% of women actively seek help in IPV situations
• 56% of criminal cases are thrown out in Canada
• every 68 seconds a women is sexually assaulted
• 24% of adolescent girls with experience IPV by the time they turn 20

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