✔︎ Bill C-233 (Violence Against an Intimate Partner)
Voted yea. Bill adopted.
Bill
Bill C-233, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Judges Act (violence against an intimate partner)
Vote
Yea.
Rationale
We support measures to better protect victims of domestic violence. Bill C-233 will help prevent deaths and save lives. In Canada, one woman or girl is killed every 2.5 days, and in most of there horrendous crimes, at least half of the accused killers were intimate partners or former intimate partners to these women.
Passed.
Bill Status
Royal Assent received