Ontario Premier Doug Ford has expressed strong opposition to intimate partner violence but stopped short of committing to an NDP bill to declare it a provincial epidemic. The bill aims to treat IPV as a public health crisis and allocate resources to address it.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford expressed zero tolerance for intimate partner violence during a press conference in Burlington, Ontario. However, he refrained from committing to an NDP bill that would declare the issue a provincial epidemic. Ford stressed his personal stance against violence against women and his four daughters, emphasizing it would be unacceptable for anyone to harm his daughters.
NDP Leader Marit Stiles criticized the government for not advancing Bill 173, the Intimate Partner Violence Epidemic Act, which was proposed to be passed in April this year. She argued that declaring IPV an epidemic would treat it as a public health crisis and allocate necessary resources to combat it
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