On the first day of the fall legislative session in Victoria on Monday, the NDP government introduced two bills they said would help support victims of sexualized violence and the non-consensual sharing of intimate images but were overshadowed by thousands of public service workers rallying at the legislature seeking higher wages.

The fist bill was introduced by Attorney General Niki Sharma and makes amendments to the Intimate Images Protection Act, which was introduced in 2023 and provides tools for victims to get their intimate images that were posted online non-consensually taken down from the internet.

Sharma said the amendments would increase the damages that victims can be rewarded through a Civil Resolution Tribunal decision from $5,000 to as high as $75,000. Those damages can be

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