Georgina McGrath, 54, is the driving force behind a private member's bill in the Senate of Canada that calls for the creation of a national strategy on intimate partner violence.
On a rainy day in Ottawa, Georgina McGrath's footsteps echo as she walks into the Senate to again tell her story of abuse. But this time would be different.
"Not for myself, because it's not going to change my story, but there is a big chance that it will change somebody else's story."More than a decade ago, McGrath said she was a strong, determined businesswoman in control of multiple companies in Labrador."It started with a violator from Happy Valley-Goose Bay," McGrath told the Senate's committee on social affairs, science and technology on April 11.
In 2012, a new man swept her off her feet — and into the most abusive situation yet. McGrath said it culminated in a vicious beating two years later that led to her suicide attempt.After years of lobbying and advocating provincially for support in combating intimate partner violence, McGrath approached Sen. Fabian Manning in 2017 to see if there was an opportunity to present a law federally that would address intimate partner violence.
Since presenting the bill in 2018, it has been sidelined multiple times because of the pandemic and a federal election in 2021. "Strangulation... It doesn't. If they're holding a gun ... there's a distance. Strangulation, they're in your face. Their eyes are in your eyes. Except their eyes are empty."The Hibbs family of Conception Bay South are supportive of any new legislation that could save individuals from abuse.
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