Ontario says it plans to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic in the province.
Government House Leader Paul Calandra says his party will ask the justice committee to thoroughly examine an NDP bill calling for the declaration and return with recommendations.
The province initially rejected calls from an inquest into the deaths of three women at the hands of their former partner to formally declare intimate partner violence an epidemic.
The jury at a coroner’s inquest into those 2015 deaths made the recommendation one year ago today, along with 85 others aimed at preventing similar tragedies.
Calandra says more needs to be done to help the disproportionate number of women affected by the issue.
Written by: The Canadian Press
