The aunt of a Kelowna woman who was killed in an attack this summer is calling on the federal government to stop delaying new laws targeting intimate partner violence (IPV).

Debbie Henderson was in Ottawa Tuesday, speaking for her late niece Bailey McCourt.

McCourt’s estranged husband, James Edward Plover, has been charged with second-degree murder in relation to a vicious attack on McCourt and another woman on July 4, just hours after he was convicted of assault by choking and uttering threats related to a separate incident in 2024.

Henderson appeared in Parliament with federal Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre to push the government to pass Bill C-225, ‘Bailey’s Law,’ which calls for GPS monitoring for people convicted of IPV charges who are awaiting sentencing, an IPV offend

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