Debates over Bill C-223 should focus not on whether reform is needed but on how to protect children while preserving flexibility for complex, highly individualized cases.
- PhD Candidate, Western University
Without comprehensive legislative and societal reforms to address intimate partner violence, the measures in Bill C-21 risk being little more than a bandage on a gaping wound.
Failing to deem intimate partner violence an epidemic will permit the conditions that sustain it to persist — and likely worsen.
The health, safety and lives of women and children are at stake.
Like mandatory charging policies, criminalizing coercive control could turn out to be harmful to the victim-survivors they were intended to protect.
Contact Eden for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Research collaboration
