By Pepper Parr
December 6, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
The story was told on social media: it should have been front-page news.
Alexa Gilmour; NDP member for Parkdale-High Park. 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.
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“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.”
Why are you publishing lies?
Editor’s note:
well my dear lady – it was not a lie. The following is the vote on the Motion. Not a Tory in sight!
Gender-based violence
The Speaker (Hon. Donna Skelly): We have a deferred vote on private member’s notice of motion number 40.
Call in the members. This is a five-minute bell.
The division bells rang from 1133 to 1138.
The Speaker (Hon. Donna Skelly): Members, please return to your seats.
MPP Gilmour has moved private member’s notice of motion number 40.
All those in favour, please rise and remain standing until recognized by the Clerk.
Ayes
Armstrong, Teresa J.
Begum, Doly
Bell, Jessica
Bourgouin, Guy
Bowman, Stephanie
Brady, Bobbi Ann
Burch, Jeff
Clancy, Aislinn
Collard, Lucille
Fairclough, Lee
Fife, Catherine
Fraser, John
French, Jennifer K.
Gates, Wayne
Gélinas, France
Gilmour, Alexa
Glover, Chris
Gretzky, Lisa
Hazell, Andrea
Hsu, Ted
Kernaghan, Terence
Mamakwa, Sol
McCrimmon, Karen
McKenney, Catherine
McMahon, Mary-Margaret
Pasma, Chandra
Sattler, Peggy
Schreiner, Mike
Shamji, Adil
Shaw, Sandy
Smyth, Stephanie
Stevens, Jennifer (Jennie)
Stiles, Marit
Tabuns, Peter
Tsao, Jonathan
Vanthof, John
Vaugeois, Lise
Watt, Tyler
West, Jamie
Wong-Tam, Kristyn
The Speaker (Hon. Donna Skelly): All those opposed, please rise and remain standing until recognized by the Clerk.
Nays
Allsopp, Tyler
Anand, Deepak
Babikian, Aris
Bailey, Robert
Bethlenfalvy, Peter
Bresee, Ric
Calandra, Paul
Cho, Raymond Sung Joon
Cho, Stan
Ciriello, Monica
Clark, Steve
Coe, Lorne
Cooper, Michelle
Crawford, Stephen
Cuzzetto, Rudy
Darouze, George
Denault, Billy
Dixon, Jess
Dowie, Andrew
Downey, Doug
Dunlop, Jill
Firin, Mohamed
Flack, Rob
Gallagher Murphy, Dawn
Grewal, Hardeep Singh
Gualtieri, Silvia
Hamid, Zee
Hardeman, Ernie
Jones, Sylvia
Jones, Trevor
Jordan, John
Kanapathi, Logan
Kerzner, Michael S.
Leardi, Anthony
Lecce, Stephen
Lumsden, Neil
McCarthy, Todd J.
McGregor, Graham
Pang, Billy
Parsa, Michael
Piccini, David
Pinsonneault, Steve
Quinn, Nolan
Racinsky, Joseph
Rae, Matthew
Riddell, Brian
Rosenberg, Bill
Sabawy, Sheref
Sandhu, Amarjot
Sarkaria, Prabmeet Singh
Sarrazin, Stéphane
Saunderson, Brian
Smith, David
Smith, Graydon
Smith, Laura
Thanigasalam, Vijay
Thompson, Lisa M.
Vickers, Paul
Wai, Daisy
Williams, Charmaine A.
The Clerk of the Assembly (Mr. Trevor Day): The ayes are 40; the nays are 60.
The Speaker (Hon. Donna Skelly): I declare the motion lost.
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.
What a shameful comment.