Canada's bill on femicide has a very broad definition

I looked at the article, and apparently the murder of a woman or girl will be considered femicide if there was a pattern of domestic violence and/or intimate partner abuse beforehand.

In other words, the definition of femicide will be very broad. In the US, about a third of murders of women are by intimate partners, so if in Canada this proportion is the same, then more than a third of murders with female victims could be considered femicide (more than a third, due to domestic violence other than by intimate partners).

This bill is effectively going to increase sentences for murders of women and girls in many cases simply because they're female.

I would be okay with femicide being classified as a distinct form of homicide, as long as it was limited in scope to murders of women because they're women, and if androcide was also classified as a distinct form of homicide, too.