{"id":5625,"date":"2026-06-09T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/?post_type=actualite&p=5625"},"modified":"2026-10-02T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:27:10","slug":"loi-gabie-renaud-une-avancee-mais-pour-qui","status":"publish","type":"actualite","link":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/article\/loi-gabie-renaud-une-avancee-mais-pour-qui\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabie Renaud Law: A Step Forward, But for Whom?"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The introduction of the bill nicknamed the “Gabie Renaud Law” has moved many of us. It was about time. Every femicide is a collective failure, and every additional tool to protect women from domestic violence is welcome. But we already know that the women we meet in our clinics will not be reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5629,"template":"","actualite_type":[8,204],"actualite_sujet":[],"action_combat":[],"mdm_pays":[],"class_list":["post-5625","actualite","type-actualite","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","actualite_type-national-actions","actualite_type-sexual-and-reproductive-autonomy"],"acf":{"mise_en_avant":false,"chapeau":"The introduction of the bill nicknamed the \"Gabie Renaud Law\" has moved many of us. It was about time. Every femicide is a collective failure, and every additional tool to protect women from domestic violence is welcome. But we already know that the women we meet in our clinics will not be reached.","cta_type":"aucun","cta_lien":"","contenu":"

These women also deserve to be protected.<\/h2>\n

At our clinic for migrants with precarious status<\/a>, we meet many women who are victims of domestic violence and whose right to stay in Canada depends on their spouse. Going to the police to inquire about a man who is also their only path to migration stability \u2014 in a climate that is particularly hostile to migrants \u2014 simply does not seem like a viable option.<\/p>\n

At our mobile clinic<\/a>, we work with women experiencing homelessness who have been evicted from their encampments or stigmatized by police services. Can we reasonably ask them to walk into a police station?<\/p>\n

Indigenous women<\/a>, for their part, face systemic racism and violence in public institutions. They will not feel safe in yet another system unless the principle of cultural safety is applied \u2014 and until this bill is co-constructed with<\/em> them, as demanded by Femmes autochtones du Qu\u00e9bec and other groups in their joint brief.<\/p>\n

These women are not exceptions. They are our patients.<\/h2>\n

They experience domestic violence at least as much as others \u2014 often more, because their precariousness makes them even more vulnerable.<\/p>\n

The Gabie Renaud Law says something important about the women Quebec chooses to protect. Our fieldwork says something important about those it still overlooks.<\/p>\n

This is not a criticism of this bill. It is an invitation to go further. Protecting all women from femicide means recognizing systemic racism, funding community services, and acknowledging that our systems were created for men and by men.<\/p>\n

Gabie Renaud deserved better. So do all our patients.<\/p>","temps_lecture":2,"legende_couverture":"","signature_nom":"","signature_role":"","signature_initiales":"","signature_avatar":"","communique_lien":{"title":"Mobilization for pregnant women without RAMQ: Doctors of the World at the Quebec National Assembly","url":"\/en\/?post_type=actualite&p=5146","target":""},"communique_libelle":"Mobilization for Pregnant Women Without RAMQ","encadre_titre":"","encadre_texte":"","partenaires_titre":"","partenaires":null,"reseaux_partage":["facebook","twitter","linkedin","email","copy"],"evenement_date":null,"evenement_type":"","evenement_lieu":"","evenement_inscription":"","presse_afficher":false,"presse_surtitre":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite\/5625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/actualite"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5630,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite\/5625\/revisions\/5630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"actualite_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite_type?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"actualite_sujet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite_sujet?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"action_combat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/action_combat?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"mdm_pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mdm_pays?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}