Two Montreal universities and a majority of the province's CEGEPs have not adopted a policy on sexual violence by the Jan. 1 deadline set by the provincial government. The law countering sexual violence on campus was passed in December 2017, after a series of sexual assaults were reported at the student residences at Université Laval in Quebec City. McGill is still in the process of updating the sexual violence policy it adopted 2016 to conform to the new law. Sexual violence is defined by the law as sexual assault and any unwanted sexual gesture, speech, behaviour or attitude communicated in person or through technology. If an institution does not put its own policy in place, the law states the Education Ministry can create a sexual violence policy for them on the institution's dime.

Source: CBC News January 11, 2019 15:30 UTC