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Charmaine Williams
Government of Ontario
Progressive Conservative MPP for Brampton Centre and Ontario's Associate Minister of Women's Social and Economic Opportunity. In November 2025 she said it would be "disingenuous" for the province to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic, arguing the term "endemic" more accurately described a "systemic" and "deep-rooted" problem.
Connected Scandals
For years, the Ford government has refused to formally declare intimate partner violence an epidemic in Ontario — rejecting a coroner's inquest recommendation, referring an opposition bill to committee instead of passing it, and blocking a unanimous consent motion in June 2025 — before settling in November 2025 for the weaker term "endemic," which advocates say still isn't matched by funding or action.
As Associate Minister of Women's Social and Economic Opportunity, publicly defended the government's refusal to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic, calling the declaration "disingenuous" and pushing the alternate term "endemic."
Tourism Minister Stan Cho resigned from Doug Ford's cabinet after billing taxpayers $16,203 for downtown Toronto hotel stays despite living 6 km from Queen's Park — plus nearly $100,000 in riding-funded meals over three years — as reporting revealed a dozen-plus PC MPPs had similarly billed $120,000+ combined since 2023, splitting the caucus over whether they were following internal government instructions all along.
PC MPP for Brampton Centre; expensed $15,865 in Toronto hotel stays.