One of the things we heard from frontline organizations was that dating partners might not be in a common-law situation—for example, people who are engaged to be married but who aren't actually dating in the traditional sense or in our cultural understanding of dating. There are arranged marriages. There is a wide spectrum of what can fall under “dating partners”, so we wanted to make sure that it was broad enough to include those situations.
On February 15th, 2024. See this statement in context.