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Bill 55IN_COMMITTEEOTHERONTARIO

Intimate Partner Violence Epidemic Act, 2025

Bill overview

Bill 55, “Intimate Partner Violence Epidemic Act, 2025”, is an Ontario bill from session 44-1. It was introduced by Kristyn Wong-Tam, Lisa Gretzky, Peggy Sattler (NDP, Toronto Centre).

Its latest recorded status is “In committee”.

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SUMMARY FROM THE OFFICIAL REGISTRY

What you need to know

The Bill enacts the Intimate Partner Violence Epidemic Act, 2025 . The Act requires the Government of Ontario to recognize that intimate partner violence is an epidemic in Ontario. The Act also provides that the Attorney General shall establish a Renfrew County Inquest Implementation Committee to consider the 86 recommendations issued in June 2022 by the Office of the Chief Coroner’s Jury Inquest into the Renfrew County triple femicide of 2015 and determine steps for implementing the recommendations and to monitor the progress the Government of Ontario subsequently makes on implementing the Committee’s recommendations. The Committee shall publish reports to be tabled in the Legislative Assembly and made available on a website of the Government of Ontario.

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