Gentlemen, thank you very much for being with us today.
First, I would like to say that I'm the critic for status of women and that I've replaced colleagues on many other committees, including the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security and the Standing Committee on National Defence.
Mr. Renney, you said in your opening remarks that there had been assault cases as there are elsewhere in society.
Don't such remarks contribute to a form of trivialization of assault cases?
Doesn't that have the effect of discouraging certain victims from reporting that form of trivialization?