This MP says hundreds shared stories of coercive control, asks House to pass bill

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OTTAWA — An NDP MP says she hopes the polarized House of Commons will continue to put partisanship aside to pass her bill to criminalize coercive control this week, after hearing hundreds of personal stories about intimate partner violence.

Laurel Collins says legislators from across party lines have supported her private member's bill, which seeks to criminalize the type of behaviours experts say abusers often use to isolate and instil fear in their victim.

"The thread that I hear again and again is that survivors of coercive control and intimate partner violence do not want this to happen to other people," she said. It seeks to define coercive control as patterns of behaviours that range from threatening to use violence against a partner, or their child or pet, to trying to control a partner's job, their appearance and what opinions they have."It is such an insidious form of violence," Collins said.

Saskatchewan and Manitoba had the highest rates of police-reported intimate partner violence in 2022, Statistics Canada reports.

 

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