Carney Government’s Justice Bill Proposes Tougher Sentences for Intimate Partner Violence and Child Predators

Carney government’s justice bill proposes tougher sentences for intimate partner violence and child predators

Framed as a course-correction and modernization to a system failing to keep women and children safe in the face of rising violence and coercion, the Liberal bill marks a shift

Liberal bill would restore minimum mandatory sentences but give judges discretion to avoid 'grossly disproportionate' sentences

The Protecting Victims Act would also create a new criminal offence of coercive control, upgrade all femicides to first-degree murder charges, and make it illegal to distribute explicit deepfake images, among other changes.