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Mercedes Stephenson

8 Oct, 9 tweets, 2 min read

Statistics Canada has just released its report on sexual assault, sexualized behaviours and discriminatory behaviours at Royal Military College in 2019. I will tweet some of the findings. #CAF

Stats Can found that "most (68%) Canadian military college (CMC) students witnessed or experienced unwanted sexualized behaviours" and the most common types were "sexual jokes, inappropriate discussions about sex life and inappropriate sexual comments about appearance or body."

52% of women attending the college experienced unwanted sexualized behaviours, so did 31% of men

Two in five (40%) students witnessed or experienced discriminatory behaviours in the previous 12 months.

Adding this includes ALL military colleges not just RMC - apologies - wanted to clarify.

This stood out to me: The most common form of discrimination that was witnessed or experienced at Canadian military colleges was the suggestion that a man does not act like a man is supposed to act.

More than six times as many women (28%) as men (4.4%) were sexually assaulted during their time as CMC students.

A lot of this happened on campus according to Stats Can and was perpetrated by fellow students.

The full report is here if you'd like to read it for yourself www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-…

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