Policy distrust

Participant 1: I am thinking of my parents. I think they would appreciate the community in SMU and the policy as well. Especially because they live in East Asia so they can’t talk with me,…

I feel like sexual assault policies, in general, are very female-targeted. They are not really male-targeted at all, which is a problem because a lot of men also get sexually assaulted. […] At the Mount,…

I feel my parents are scared a lot. Because they are a new in the country, they always think that we are going to be victimized or that it is not totally safe, because they…

Participant 1: You said this policy applies to everyone, so I need to ask about this: how […] does this policy apply itself for someone who’s Canadian in comparison to an immigrant who recently just…

What’s going to happen to the people, when we report them? […] Because I think sometimes when the person who reported, and the person who is being reported – maybe they are their friend or…

My question is, how long it would take in the investigation until the survivor feels completely safe? Because the survivor would be so scared to even go to the campus because the person [the victim/survivor]…

Maybe I just missed the information from you, but the question that I came up with is, what if the sexual violence situation happens outside of campus? For example, what if it happens at someone’s…

How would you solve it? Like, I know you can get counselling and medical services, but like, how do you say that the people who did the violence are [unclear]. Like, do you do anything…

I heard someone say there is racial discrimination here, so I may not choose to go to the police. I have a hypothesis that if we have been sexually assaulted in Canada, can we report…

There is something that really pisses me off. I think the policy can be really relevant if this policy makes effort to hold the person accused accountable. Around one year ago, I don’t know if…