Insulting: Intimate partner violence study cut short by Ontario committee [Video]

Victims of intimate partner violence and their supporters are upset after early election speculation forced an Ontario legislative committee to cut short what was supposed to be an exhaustive study of the issue.

A possible spring election forced one of the committee’s leaders to expedite the study’s timeline with the goal of completing a report by February, while the other leader called the situation a “farce.”

The justice policy subcommittee, co-led by a Progressive Conservative and a New Democrat, completed Phase 1 of its work after listening to nearly 90 subject-matter witnesses over the summer.

The committee had grand plans that included travelling across the province to hear from survivors, with a key trip to Renfrew County in eastern Ontario to meet with those involved in a seminal coroner’s inquest into the murders of three area women – Nathalie Warmerdam, Carol Culleton and Anastasia Kuzyk – at the hands of a former partner.

Now, the …