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Donna Skelly

  • MPP
  • Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Flamborough—Glanbrook
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
  • Ontario
  • Suite 104 2000 Garth St. Hamilton, ON L9B 0C1
  • tel: 905-679-3770
  • fax: 905-679-0288
  • Donna.Skelly@pc.ola.org

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Context: Assembly - Mar/5/24
Ms. Donna Skelly
  • Mar/5/24 4:10:00 p.m.

In my previous career, I spent a lot of time in courtrooms covering stories involving criminal acts. Far too often, the focus was on the criminal and not on the victim.

This particular piece of legislation is proposing changes to a Victims’ Bill of Rights—back in 1995—that will give victims the ability to sue convicted offenders for emotional distress and related bodily harm for crimes of terrorism, motor vehicle theft and hate crimes targeting religious groups, as well as sexual offences and human trafficking.

I want to ask the member from Oakville North–Burlington why it is important, in her opinion, for our government to bring these changes forward and how they will impact the lives of victims.
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