Pam Damoff at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On May 10th, 2023. See this statement in context.

May 10th, 2023 / 8:45 p.m.

Liberal

Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON

I have a question for the officials.

The original clause in the bill says, “protection order has the meaning assigned by the regulations”. Would we allow more flexibility while still including the list that the NDP have put forward if it said “protection order has the meaning assigned by the regulations, but”—I'm doing this on the fly a little bit here, I'm sorry—“includes and is not limited to”, and then this list.

Would that allow you the flexibility you need, to do it in regulations while setting this minimum standard that we're hoping to get without prescribing that it's just the courts?

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