By National Post on 05/31/2017
“…I can recommend one safe policy position that Scheer should support: equal shared parenting (ESP) as the legal default following parental separations. ESP was a plank in Stephen Harper’s platform back in 2004, and to my knowledge was never officially abrogated. Yet, not only did Harper fail to address it as prime minister, he instructed his cabinet (several of whom would have supported ESP) to squash Bill C-560, a 2014 private member’s bill brought forward by former MP Maurice Vellacott. The bill proposed to amend the Divorce Act to create a presumption of post-separation ESP, except in cases of reasonably suspected child jeopardy. …”
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