Pellerin: Public safety — we're not asking the right questions in Ottawa's municipal election

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Pellerin: Public safety — we're not asking the right questions in Ottawa's municipal election
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The front\u002Drunners in the race for mayor are missing a golden opportunity to discuss what they really mean by making us all safer in our city.

However, there are two topics that are tugging insistently at my little geeky heart: safety and health.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.

Safety, I said, is a priority for everyone. It’s not because Ottawa is already a very safe city that it always feels safe for everyone. Feelings of safety are relative. And we’re all entitled to feeling the way we do about our perceptions of safety.But what are their definitions? The front-runners in the race for mayor, I said in that video, are missing a golden opportunity to have a discussion about what they really mean by safety.

What about people who identify as women or who are female-passing and get sexually assaulted more than once by someone in a position of authority over them and don’t report it because they know how pointless it is, especially if they are not white? Are they to be considered “safe” because nobody cares that they’re repeatedly victimized?Article content

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