To the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

WHEREAS Intimate Partner Violence impacts every community across Ontario; and

WHEREAS the Renfrew Inquest’s number one recommendation is to declare Intimate Partner Violence an Epidemic in Ontario; and

WHEREAS gender-based violence is a human rights violation and no one should be harmed or killed due to their gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation; and

WHEREAS the province of Ontario should join the nearly 100 municipalities across the province who have already declared Intimate Partner Violence an Epidemic;; and

WHEREAS advocates, survivors and municipalities across the province have called on the government to take this step;

WHEREAS the Indigenous Chiefs of Ontario passed a resolution declaring Intimate Partner Violence an Epidemic in 2005;