The Nova Scotia government has established a 25-member committee to advise the government on how to prevent gender-based violence.
Leah Martin, the minister responsible for the Advisory Council on the Status of Women, says the group will also focus on providing support to victims and their families.
Last year, Prime Minister Tim Houston's Progressive Conservative government passed legislation declaring intimate partner violence an epidemic.
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An independent coordinator will help guide the committee, which will be co-chaired by Martin and newly appointed Justice Secretary Scott Armstrong.
It will include officials from several provincial departments and is scheduled to hold its first meeting later this month.
More than 260 Nova Scotians applied to join the committee.
The worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history began on the night of April 18, 2020 in Nova Scotia, shortly after the gunman brutally attacked his common-law wife.
In March 2023, a public inquiry into the deaths of 22 people made 130 recommendations aimed at preventing a similar tragedy, including more than a dozen calling on governments to do more to stop the “epidemic” of gender-based violence.
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