The Ford government has again struck down a call to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic in Ontario on the same day it restarted a committee studying the topic, saying it is still serious about addressing gender-based violence.

Last year, the government backed an opposition bill that would have declared intimate partner violence an epidemic, but instead of passing it into law, it sent it to a committee tasked with hearing from survivors and advocates in the space.

Those committee hearings ran through last summer and saw almost 90 experts and witnesses.

Its findings were set to be reported back to the legislature in February before an early election call ended its work and stopped it in its tracks .

Before rising for the summer on Thursday, Progressive Conservative Hous

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