A possible spring election forced one of the committee’s leaders to expedite the study’s timeline with the goal of completing a report by February, while the other leader called the situation a ‘farce’
Victims of intimate partner violence and their supporters are upset after early election speculation forced an Ontario legislative committee to cut short what was supposed to be an exhaustive study of the issue.
Now, the trip to Renfrew has been cancelled and those discussions with survivors will occur either at Queen’s Park in Toronto or over video calls. “This is incredibly important to me,” Dixon said. “No one is going to be able to stop me from working on this and from advocating for this.” Then-government house leader Paul Calandra said the committee would perform “an in-depth study on all of the aspects with respect to intimate partner violence, both the current programs that are available, some of the root causes of it and how we can do better in the province of Ontario.”
The organization defines femicide as “the gender-related killing of women, children and gender-diverse individuals by men that occur in Ontario.” At least 25 of those killings came at the hands of an intimate partner, the report said.
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