Liberals exercising restraint against penalizing predators at home while engaging with misogynistic tyrants abroad

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Canada is drifting into a dangerous contradiction: we speak the language of women’s equality but tolerate legal, judicial and diplomatic outcomes that steadily erode women’s actual standing under the law.

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This is not rhetorical overreach. It is the observable reality of judicial rulings, policing outcomes, and a foreign policy posture that accommodates regimes where women are formally subordinated.

A state that cannot or will not protect women’s safety, dignity, and equality is not merely failing a constituency. It is undermining its own legitimacy.

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The Canadian justice system increasingly prioritizes procedural minimalism over public safety. This shift was codified by Bill C-75, which mandated a “principle of restraint,” making release the default and detention the exception.

We’ve seen what these principles look like in practice. In Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Omogbolahan “Teddy” Jegede was charged with sexually assaulting two women. Despite the severity and multiplicity of the charges, he was released on conditions pending trial. This was not an evidentiary failure. It was the intended outcome of a system that weighs an accused’s liberty above the collective safety of women.

Late this year, the federal government introduced the