This bill amends the Criminal Code to strengthen criminal penalties for violence against intimate partners, including creating a new first-degree murder charge for killings tied to coercive or controlling behaviour, increasing sentences for intimate partner manslaughter, creating new offences for violence against intimate partners, and extending the period police can hold seized items from 90 to 180 days.
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