Policy Shifts - Bills or acts that are of interest to VAW shelters and transition houses Bill C-233 (Keira’s Law)

Policy Shifts Canadian Legislative Changes Impacting Violence Against Women Spring 2022 – Summer 2023 National Bills or acts that are of interest to VAW shelters and transition houses • Bill C-233 (Keira’s Law) will amend the Judges Act to ensure that judges receive training and education on domestic violence and coercive control in intimate partner and family relationships. [...] Jun 2023 • Bill C-332 (Criminalization of Coercive Control) would enact amendments to the criminal code to create an offence of coercive or controlling conduct. [...] Jun 2022 • Amendments to Bill C-28 (Self-induced extreme intoxication) were implemented when the Supreme Court of Canada found s 33.1 unconstitutional, which provided the possibility of the extreme intoxication defence again. [...] Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Status of Women (FEWO) • Resource Development and Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls Report released Dec 2022 • Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence in Canada Report released Jun 2022 . [...] In process Publications Statistics Canada • Violent victimization and perceptions of safety: Experiences of First Nations, Métis and Inuit women in Canada Apr 2022 • Canadian residential facilities for victims of abuse, 2020/2021 Apr 2022 • Shelters for victims of abuse with ties to Indigenous communities or organizations in Canada, 2020/2021 Sept 2022 • Victims of police-reported family and intim.