I’m curious about Justin Trottier; I’m looking for more on his involvement with “Men’s Rights” and the Canadian Association for Equality.
There’s a blog post from March 2012, CFI Canada: Where are they now?
Justin Trottier continues as the public face and voice of CFI Canada, now holding the title of National Outreach Coordinator. Although I may have that title wrong since the CFI Canada website remains horribly out of date (with several people who have resigned remaining on the personnel list). He also continues to advocate for so-called men’s rights, now posting through the “Canadian Association for Equality”:
From the description of the CAE Facebook group:
This facebook group will be used to organize volunteers of a new coalition which will present an alternative and balancing point of view on gender issues like parental and custody rights, violence, education, health, safety & security, poverty and the workplace.
The coalition shall focus on major public educational events and outreach campaigns to finally bring these issues into the living room of every family in Canada.We’ll lift the veil off revisionist history and make people wonder why
* Men are one-third more likely to develop prostate cancer than women are to develop breast cancer, yet 50% more funding goes to women’s health over men’s
* Men and women commit domestic abuse against each other at roughly equal rates (for every level of severity), yet there is 1 men’s shelter in all of Canada and it just opened this year
* Men now account for under 60% of undergraduate enrollment while boys are performing significantly worse then girls in grade school, yet affirmative action programs continue to “empower women and girls” only
* Female genital mutilation is considered a UN human rights violation yet male genital mutilation is supported by doctors, ethicists and is frequently the basis of mockery on TVThis Canadian Men’s Rights Coalition (CMRC) is the result of 2 years of carefully thought out and planned strategy considerations and 10 months reading over a dozen books by the leading men’s rights champions. When I do things I do them right and BIG. So if you’re interested in helping found this group, of which I am dead serious, contact me at justin.trottier@gmail.com. Our plan is to host a major debate in September “Is Society Anti-Male” followed by issue specific lectures throughout the year: poverty, health, violence, safety, etc.
There’s a post at Mens [sic] Rights Help Forum promoting a Canadian Association for Equality event.
Our first public event Thursday: The New Sexism – Discrimination Against Men in Family Courts?
Hi everyone,You might be interested in our first public event this Thursday night. Please circulate, advise on facebook, twitter, etc:
THE NEW SEXISM: WHY ARE MEN DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN FAMILY COURTS?
“The Evolution of Fathers Rights: Redefining The Best Interests of Children”
Thursday, September 22, 7:00 PM
Sidney Smith Hall, Rm 1083 – 100 St. George St, @ the University of Toronto ALL WELCOME1950s gender stereotypes still determine the final results in Family Court. In the name of children’s best interest, publicly funded services are designed to separate fathers from children, treating them instead like wallets.
The tragic casualties are the children. Kids are routinely denied the benefit from an equal parenting relationship with both parents.
Join Danny Guspie, Executive Director of Fathers Resources International and organizer of several National Shared Parenting Conferences, to hear about his activism for reform of family courts.
Contact: info@equalitycanada.ca | 416-402-8856 | www.EqualityCanada.com
Hosted by the Canadian Association for Equality.
Part of our Men’s Issues Awareness CampaignDanny Guspie, is Executive Director of Fathers Resources International. will share his perspective and experiences gained over the last 20 years as a national divorce-reform activist / educator, counselor, coach and law clerk, helping fathers secure justice for their children.
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Justin Trottier
Candidate for MPP, Parkdale-High Park, Green Party of Ontario
Educational Non-Profit Executive Director, Community Activist, Writer and Public Speaker
There’s a bit of video from an event last September.
It’s strange, this Men’s Rights caper. You don’t see people like Trottier setting up or campaigning for racist organizations or homophobic organizations. You see people who do that, of course, but they’re not people like Trottier. But you do see them setting up or campaigning for organizations that are angry about women’s rights.
What I found … interesting … is this: in the CAE Facebook group description you quote there are four offered examples where men are supposedly worse off than women. Yet does the promoted CAE event advocate for improvements in any of those problem areas? No. Instead their event focuses on discrimination in family court.
If you are truly concerned about low funding for prostrate cancer research then campaign for more funding. If you think there should be more men’s shelter’s then found one, don’t whinge* about “Is Society Anti-Male”.
Mike
* I almost said ‘bitch’ there; luckily I caught myself.
Thiere are some important issues buried in the pile of mitruths and misrepresentation, but this is just odd:
So men are still disproportionately represented at UG level, despite achieving poorer outcomes in grade school? What is his point there? (Did he just screw up his figures, or does he really think that men accounting for more than half of all enrolment is a natural balance? )
No but you see, 50% if women means “mostly women” so obviously 60% of women means almost all (undergraduates are). If men are not at 50% or above (preferably *much* above), it’s a crime against humanity.
Where did they get those numbers? They don’t match the ones I see on reliable web sites (1 in 7 men get prostate cancer; 1 in 8 women get invasive breast cancer i. e. not counting early stages).
Ugh, this claim. I can’t dismantle it right now, but it’s pure bullshit.
Looks like they took the personnel list down.
CFI Canada is an old boys club.
I also can’t dismantle it – can’t remember where that source is – but isn’t it basically the “oh, but I deserved it!” argument?
Seems damning on the face of it, but isn’t prostate cancer almost always curable if found soon enough? My uncle died of prostate cancer far more recently than I want to think about, but it wasn’t caught until it had spread throughout his body. This is a problem in itself – men should actually go to the doctor when they have cause to – but that’s not the issue being raised here as far as I can see. What are the stats with breast cancer? Is early diagnosis as good an indicator for effective treatment as it is with prostate cancer?
Perhaps more importantly, how advanced are the treatments, comparatively? If breast cancer treatment is significantly lagging behind prostate cancer treatment, then I could see an argument for distributing limited funds to favour the less advanced treatment.
Actually…
…does this actually refer to cancer research at all, or is it a general statement covering all of men & women’s health? Because I can see where there might be a few additional costs on the women’s health side if it’s general…
Oh no! Men are only a slight majority instead of the vast majority! MISANDRY!!!
Isn’t this actually that, while both are improving, girls are improving slightly more than boys? And, again, are these affirmative action programs specifically those in grade schools, or in general society where there are still huge problems that make them necessary?
The words they’re choosing makes me doubt the veracity of their claims. Honestly, it sounds like they’re using true statements to sell false impressions.