What is in Bill C-16, Ottawa’s legislation that seeks to toughen gender-based violence laws?
- Posted on December 11, 2025
- By The Globe and Mail
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What is in Bill C-16, Ottawa’s legislation that seeks to toughen gender-based violence laws?

Legislation proposes longer sentences for intimate partner violence, classifies femicide as first-degree murder and makes coercive control a criminal offence