The politicians had been taking part within the ”Hope In High Heels” marketing campaign

Videos have surfaced on social media displaying male Canadian lawmakers carrying pink-coloured excessive heels contained in the Parliament of Canada in an effort to increase consciousness about violence in opposition to girls. The politicians had been taking part within the ”Hope In High Heels” marketing campaign sponsored by Halton Women’s Place, a girls’s shelter in Ontario, Fox News reported.

The marketing campaign, which has been working for 4 years, goals to coach males and boys about gender-based violence whereas elevating funds for the ladies’s shelter. 

”Violence in opposition to girls remains to be prevalent in our society. Hope in Heels is an occasion that spreads consciousness of violence in opposition to girls whereas encouraging males and boys to be a part of the answer. We wore their signature pink heels in help of this essential trigger,” Canadian Transport Minister Omar Alghabra tweeted Thursday, sharing a video of the occasion that reveals the lads strolling across the convention desk in pink heels.

Watch the video right here:

Violence in opposition to girls remains to be prevalent in our society. Hope in Heels is an occasion that spreads consciousness on violence in opposition to girls whereas encouraging males and boys to be a part of the answer. We wore their signature pink heels in help to this essential trigger. @HaltonWomensPlpic.twitter.com/5qngxQ6Myu

— Omar Alghabra (@OmarAlghabra) April 20, 2023

Liberal MP Karina Gould additionally shared photos of her male colleagues donning the new pink heels. She wrote, ”We welcomed  @HaltonWomensPl to the Hill for the 4th annual Hope in High Heels on the Hill, to proceed the dialog on systemic violence in opposition to girls. Educating males and boys is a part of the answer, and it’s all of our duties to finish gender-based violence.”

We welcomed @HaltonWomensPl to the Hill for the 4th annual Hope in High Heels on the Hill, to proceed the dialog on systemic violence in opposition to girls.

Educating males and boys is a part of the answer, and it’s all of our duties to finish gender based mostly violence. pic.twitter.com/W1Y2daIhHP

— Karina Gould (@karinagould) April 20, 2023

While solely a handful supported the transfer, not everybody was impressed with their efforts, and plenty of mentioned that the shallow train trivialised the problem of violence in opposition to girls. Some even referred to as it ”insultng, ”embarrassing” and ”ridiculous.”

One person wrote, ”Canadian girls, do you’re feeling safer now? Or do you simply really feel {that a} bunch of virtue-signalling Liberal clowns are needlessly making fools of themselves?” Another wrote, ”I’m so embarrassed for you this really made my scalp tingle.”

A 3rd wrote, ”This circus just isn’t serving to girls in any means, form, or kind. It’s males having a goddamn snicker. Male violence in opposition to girls just isn’t a laughing matter and it definitely will not be diminished by a bunch of pr*cks parading round in heels.” 

A fourth added, ”How are males making an attempt to stroll in pink excessive heels encouraging anybody to be a part of an answer to cease violence in opposition to girls? This doesn’t make me really feel protected in any respect, fairly the alternative.” A fifth added, ”As the survivor of a violent assault that is simply so offensive,” whereas one other acknowledged, ”Mocking femininity will actually do the trick.”

The occasion comes simply two days after a self-identified transgender girl in Ontario, Canada, was arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in a girls’s shelter. According to the World Health Organization, one in three girls will expertise bodily or sexual violence of their life.