We as Canadians pride ourselves in living in a society which values equality as one of it's.
At the beginning of the last century, only those male individuals of white,.
Anglo-Saxon heritage were given full rights as citizens, with everyone else being cast to the.
wayside. Slowly, with the passing of each year, more and more individuals were allowed to bask.
in the benefits that Canadian citizenship had, and continues to offer. Nowadays, discrimination.
on the basis of race, religion, and most importantly sex are strictly prohibited by both law and.
frowned upon by social customs. But is this really the case? Proportionally, men are vastly more.
likely to be wrongly convicted of sexual assault than women. This clearly contravenes all that.
our nation stands for. Through the use of specific cases, the bias in sexual assault cases against.
men will clearly be established in the following paragraphs. .
Society today has fallen under the wrong impression that all men think about nothing.
but sex, and that all men are potential sex offenders and predators. The history of sexual.
offenses committed almost entirely by men has led to a misconception of this complex crime.
When and if a woman sues a man for a sexual offense, society tends to think that the man must.
be guilty. Society deems it impossible that a woman could lie about such an embarrassing and.
degrading thing. This of course reverses the Canadian legal system, making the accused male.
"Guilty until proven Innocent", as opposed "Innocent until proven Guilty". We must realize that.
men are often convicted of a crime they did not commit, and that women sometimes use the.
charge of sexual assault to get back at/get rid of their partners, or to get some other benefit.
To prove this I"m using the case of R. v. Park indexed as File No. 23876 in the Complete.
Collection of the Supreme Court of Canada. In this case the accused was charged with Sexual.
Assault.