Conservative MP calls for emergency committee meeting to study violence against women [Video]

A Conservative member of Parliament is calling for an emergency meeting to launch a study on violence against women.

Michelle Ferreri has written a letter to fellow MPs on the House of Commons status of women committee requesting to immediately recall members for the study.

This comes after two witnesses invited to testify on their personal experience with domestic violence tearfully stormed out of a committee hearing last month after it devolved into political bickering.

One of the witnesses demanded an apology from a Liberal MP who put a halt to a planned discussion about violence against women in favour of debate about abortion rights.

WATCH | Domestic abuse witnesses walk out of Commons women’s committee: Witnesses left a parliamentary committee upset after Liberals tried to steer a planned discussion about violence against women toward the topic of abortion rights. Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri apologized on behalf of the committee, …