Quebec invests $3.1 million to help police fight intimate partner violence
Posted February 21, 2022 12:52 pm.
Quebec is distributing more than $3 million over three years to 11 police forces to fight intimate partner violence.
Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault said in a news release Monday that the money will be directed toward supporting victims and enhancing surveillance over people convicted of domestic violence.
The minister’s announcement follows news over the weekend of the deaths of two couples in separate incidents, in Laval, and in Dunham, in the Eastern Townships.
Police in both cases said they believed the deaths involved a murder followed by a suicide.
Quebec has invested more than $509 million since 2020 in the fight against violence towards women.
In 2020, Quebec saw 21 women and girls killed by men, while an unofficial count puts the number of femicides in 2021 at 18.