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Beyond Bill C-16: Turning Legislative Reform into Survivor Safety
This Webinar was presented and recorded on September 15, 2026.
Bill C-16 represents an important opportunity to strengthen Canada's response to gender-based violence. This webinar explored the legislation through a survivor-centred and systems-change lens, focusing not only on what the Bill proposes, but why these reforms matter, what they could mean for survivors and the GBV sector, and the implementation considerations necessary to translate legislative change into meaningful improvements in survivor safety.
Webinar Recording
Learning Objectives
By the end of this presentation, participants will:
- Understand the key reforms proposed in Bill C-16 and their significance for survivors and the GBV sector
- Explain the importance of recognizing coercive control and femicide within Canada's legal framework
- Identify opportunities and implementation challenges associated with the legislation
- Recognize that legislation alone does not improve safety and that effective implementation requires coordinated action across justice, community services, and other systems
- Consider the role of the GBV sector in supporting implementation and advancing survivor-centred responses
Speakers
Through her community-based organizing, frontline work, curricula development, training, and activism over three decades, Angela Marie MacDougall has been deeply involved in movements for gender, racial and social justice.
Angela’s impact includes the development of empowerment and advocacy-based program and service delivery models that address gender-based violence and violence against women that are grounded in strong theoretical frameworks that include intersectional feminist trauma and violence-informed analysis. She has organized around law reform and community-based research toward building lasting social change.
She is co-writer of Freedom from Violence: Tools for Working with Trauma, Mental Health and Substance Use, Empowering Non-Status, Refugee, and Immigrant Women Who Experience Violence, Implementation of a National Action Plan on GBV and VAW: Supports for Survivors and their Families, and Colour of Violence: Gender, Race and Anti-Violence Services.
Angela is an expert panelist at Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, a founding member of Feminists Deliver, a long-standing member of Vancouver’s February 14th Women’s Memorial March and is a founding member of Intersectional Feminist Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative. Angela is currently the executive director of Battered Women’s Support Services.
Au-delà du projet de loi C-16 : faire de la réforme législative un levier de sécurité pour les personnes survivantes
Ce webinaire a été présenté et enregistré le 15 septembre 2026.
Le projet de loi C-16 représente une occasion importante de renforcer la réponse du Canada à la violence fondée sur le sexe. Ce webinaire a exploré la loi dans une optique centrée sur les personnes survivantes et axée sur le changement systémique. Elle portera non seulement sur ce que propose le projet de loi, mais aussi sur les raisons pour lesquelles ces réformes sont importantes, sur ce qu’elles pourraient signifier pour les personnes survivantes et le secteur de la violence fondée sur le sexe (VFS), ainsi que sur les considérations relatives à leur mise en œuvre qui sont nécessaires pour que les changements législatifs se traduisent par des améliorations concrètes de la sécurité des personnes survivantes.
Enregistrement du webinaire
Objectifs d'apprentissage
À la fin de cette présentation, les participants vont :
- Comprendre les principales réformes proposées dans le projet de loi C-16 et leur importance pour les personnes survivantes et le secteur de la VFS
- Expliquer l’importance de reconnaître le contrôle coercitif et le féminicide dans le cadre juridique canadien
- Cerner les possibilités et les défis de mise en œuvre associés à la loi
- Reconnaître que la loi, à elle seule, n’améliore pas la sécurité et qu’une mise en œuvre efficace exige une action coordonnée entre le système de justice, les services communautaires et d’autres systèmes
- Réfléchir au rôle du secteur de la VFS pour soutenir la mise en œuvre et faire progresser des réponses centrées sur les personnes survivantes
Conférencier·e·s
Par son travail d’organisation communautaire, son travail de première ligne, l'élaboration de programmes de formation, ses activités de formation et son militantisme depuis plus de trois décennies, Angela Marie MacDougall participe activement aux mouvements pour la justice de genre, la justice raciale et la justice sociale.
L’impact d’Angela comprend l'élaboration de modèles de programmes et de prestation de services fondés sur l’autonomisation et la défense des droits, qui s’attaquent à la violence fondée sur le sexe et à la violence faite aux femmes, et qui reposent sur de solides cadres théoriques intégrant une analyse féministe intersectionnelle tenant compte des traumatismes et de la violence. Elle s’est mobilisée en faveur de la réforme du droit et de la recherche communautaire dans le but de favoriser un changement social durable.
Elle est coautrice de Freedom from Violence: Tools for Working with Trauma, Mental Health and Substance Use [Se libérer de la violence : outils pour intervenir en contexte de traumatisme, de santé mentale et de consommation de substances]; Empowering Non‑Status, Refugee, and Immigrant Women Who Experience Violence [Autonomiser les femmes sans statut, réfugiées et immigrantes qui subissent de la violence]; Implementation of a National Action Plan on GBV and VAW: Supports for Survivors and their Families [Mise en œuvre d’un plan d’action national sur la VFS et la violence faite aux femmes : mesures de soutien pour les personnes survivantes et leur famille]; et Colour of Violence: Gender, Race and Anti-Violence Services [La couleur de la violence : genre, race et services de lutte contre la violence].
Angela est membre du groupe d’expert·e·s de l’Observatoire canadien du fémicide pour la justice et la responsabilisation, membre fondatrice de Feminists Deliver, membre de longue date de la Marche commémorative des femmes du 14 février de Vancouver et membre fondatrice de l'Intersectional Feminist Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative. Angela est actuellement directrice générale de Battered Women’s Support Services.
Beyond Bill C-16: Turning Legislative Reform into Survivor Safety
This Webinar was presented and recorded on September 15, 2026.
Bill C-16 represents an important opportunity to strengthen Canada's response to gender-based violence. This webinar explored the legislation through a survivor-centred and systems-change lens, focusing not only on what the Bill proposes, but why these reforms matter, what they could mean for survivors and the GBV sector, and the implementation considerations necessary to translate legislative change into meaningful improvements in survivor safety.
Webinar Recording
Learning Objectives
By the end of this presentation, participants will:
- Understand the key reforms proposed in Bill C-16 and their significance for survivors and the GBV sector
- Explain the importance of recognizing coercive control and femicide within Canada's legal framework
- Identify opportunities and implementation challenges associated with the legislation
- Recognize that legislation alone does not improve safety and that effective implementation requires coordinated action across justice, community services, and other systems
- Consider the role of the GBV sector in supporting implementation and advancing survivor-centred responses
Speakers
Through her community-based organizing, frontline work, curricula development, training, and activism over three decades, Angela Marie MacDougall has been deeply involved in movements for gender, racial and social justice.
Angela’s impact includes the development of empowerment and advocacy-based program and service delivery models that address gender-based violence and violence against women that are grounded in strong theoretical frameworks that include intersectional feminist trauma and violence-informed analysis. She has organized around law reform and community-based research toward building lasting social change.
She is co-writer of Freedom from Violence: Tools for Working with Trauma, Mental Health and Substance Use, Empowering Non-Status, Refugee, and Immigrant Women Who Experience Violence, Implementation of a National Action Plan on GBV and VAW: Supports for Survivors and their Families, and Colour of Violence: Gender, Race and Anti-Violence Services.
Angela is an expert panelist at Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, a founding member of Feminists Deliver, a long-standing member of Vancouver’s February 14th Women’s Memorial March and is a founding member of Intersectional Feminist Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative. Angela is currently the executive director of Battered Women’s Support Services.
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