CANADA
CBC News
By Jean Laroche, CBC News
An amendment to fix what the minister of justice calls an error in a law designed to give sex crime victims the right to sue their abuser has been passed by the Nova Scotia legislature.
The original bill, introduced in the fall, removed a statute of limitation in cases of sexual abuse, but only applied going forward, not retroactively.
At the time, Justice Minister Lena Diab said repeatedly no other similar law in Canada allowed for retroactivity. But that was incorrect and on Friday she apologized for that error.
”A mistake happened,” Diab said. “People are humans. What I can tell you is this bill had been worked on for years and years and years. The issue itself was never brought forward in those years, as a you know. And it was missed.”
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