Conservative The leader Pierre Hairyvre says that he will last the penalties for Intimate partner violence If his party trains the government after this election.
Friday, Hairyvre took his campaign in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, where he was joined by a number of women who are surviving violence between intimate partners.
He thanked two of the defenders for sharing their stories at the press conference.
A conservative government undertakes to create a new criminal offense of aggression of an intimate partner and adopts a law to demand the strictest deposit conditions for any person accused of violence between intimate partners.
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This would include, says Hairyvre, monitoring the GPS ankle bracelets for those authorized on bail.
The conservatives also undertake that the murder of an intimate partner or a child would be treated as a first degree murder.
The Liberals and the NPD have not yet revealed a specific plan to combat violence between intimate partners in this federal electoral campaign.
The candidate of the new Democrat, Lauren Collins, who requires a re-election in British Columbia in Victoria, presented a private member’s bill to Parliament in 2023 To criminalize coercive behavior.
Bill C – 332which aims to modify the Criminal codeCriminalizing the driving that uses, tries to use or threatens to “use violence against certain people, forcing or trying to force the intimate partner to engage in sexual activity”, spent his last reading in the House of Commons after a unanimous vote in June 2024.
Meanwhile, the liberal government under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has also taken action to combat crime and violence of intimate partners, More recently with the exception of individuals Who are found guilty of an offense in which violence has been used, threatened or attempted against their intimate partner or any member of their family to obtain a firearm license. This policy came into force on Friday.
The liberals also implemented a national action plan to combat sexist violence in November 2022.
– with Global News files
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