NDP MP Laurel Collins says legislators from across party lines have supported her private member’s bill
An NDP MP says she hopes the polarized House of Commons will continue to put partisanship aside to pass her bill to criminalize coercive control this week, after hearing hundreds of personal stories about intimate partner violence.
The MP said she’s heard from hundreds more people who have shared their own experiences or those of someone they love. Collins’s bill was amended following a study by a parliamentary committee earlier this year, which featured testimony from legal experts and advocates. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police has previously said laws that are used to prosecute domestic violence are focused on physical incidents and do not allow police to intervene in cases of coercive control.
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