By Pepper Parr
December 6, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
The story was told on social media: it should have been front-page news.
France Gélinas, NDP member for Nickel Belt is the longest-serving MPP in the current Ontario NDP caucus, Her comment on social media should been front-page news.
Earlier this week, the Ford Progressive Conservative government voted down the NDP motion to end violence against women. I want to tell you just how big a slap in the face it was to women across Ontario.
The Associate Minister for Women’s Social and Economic Opportunities;
the Minister for Children Community Social Services;
and the Minister for Education and Child Care,
didn’t even bother to show up for the debate to hear the plan being put forward.
This after we had gathered dozens of frontline workers from the labour, union rights workers, and advocates in the Violence Against Women.
All these people had come together to write this plan, hand it to the government and say, Please, here’s what we need to do to end violence against women.
They voted it down.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/femicide-hamilton-council-9.7003636
“Until we start to name it… it remains a sector issue, a women’s issue, a private issue,” said Deschamps, in an interview with CBC Hamilton in advance of the committee meeting. “When a woman is killed in our community there’s a silence around that, and fear and tiptoeing in a way we don’t see around other public-safety issues.”
Violence against women (or anyone) is a bloody law! Or do you think Violence against men and children is somehow less of a crime then Violence specifically against women? What entitled world do you live in? Even the thought of making a law specifically for Violence against women is absurd.