I can assure you emphatically that the intent of this leave is to provide an employee who is a victim of family violence with leave in order for them to deal with the situation in their life or the life of a minor child. The Canada Labour Code provides minimum standards. An employer always has the right to be more generous, and we know that many employers do this—they are more generous.
I would also say, reflecting the fact that the new leave is intended to provide people who are in horrific circumstances with leave, that it only provides one specific circumstance when someone would not have that right, and that is if through the justice system they are identified as the perpetrator. I would say also that the exception reinforces that the employer can provide leave in the case where it is probable—not possible, but probable—in the circumstances that the individual is the victim of domestic violence—