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Petition in Support of Keira’s Law

This petition is in support of Bill C-233 (An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Judges Act (violence against an intimate partner), which was introduced in the House of Commons as a private member’s bill and underwent its first reading on February 7, 2022.

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3956&fbclid=IwAR1kzgnoVvOlQHi3Lgn8gaqItR2fGUdQW-R2yZ7gXuvTQH2BAYhTPJ5yiJk
(Note that there are two steps to the petition—after signing, you need to click the link in an email that is sent to you to confirm your identity.)

Read a news story about the loss of Keira, a four-year-old who was killed by her father after a failure by the family court system, here.

There are two very important pieces to this Bill: training for judges on IPV and coercive control and a requirement for judges to consider adding electronic monitoring as a condition of release orders for people who have been charged with offences against their intimate partners. Read a letter from PATHS highlighting some of the evidence for these changes here.