An Act respecting national action for the prevention of intimate partner violence

Bill S-242 was a Senate Private Member's Bill respecting national action for the prevention of intimate-partner violence. Brought after the 2024 Mass Casualty Commission's March final report (the Turner-MacDonald report into the April 2020 Portapique mass shooting, 22 victims) found multiple federal-jurisdiction gaps in intimate-partner-violence prevention and family-violence response. Statistics Canada reported approximately 117,000 cases of intimate-partner violence reported to police in 2023 (the highest annual count on record). The bill would have created a federal Intimate Partner Violence Commissioner, mandated federal-provincial-territorial coordination on IPV-prevention frameworks, and required annual public reporting under the Department of Justice Act.