Yes, it is an epidemic, agrees the NDP health critic. As a woman, mother and health critic for the NSNDP, I am writing in response to Liz LeClair’s important article about making intimate partner violence (IPV) a larger issue in this current provincial election. As a caucus of mostly women and gender-diverse people, we in the NDP have been pushing to declare IPV an epidemic as called for by the Mass Casualty Commission and, with that declaration, designate epidemic-level funding to end it…