Thank you, Chair.
Again, it's always a pleasure to hear Richard Kurland share with us his analysis in such a succinct way.
I was looking at trends, justice, and processing times, but I also want to comment that in a lot of these marriages that essentially end up in abuse, the precise reason that happened is because the family wants to have control over the woman, over her case. A lot of them are precisely in a situation where the family wants to keep them from having access to that information. I heard a lot of suggestions that we should provide this information, but if access is not available for this woman to even get out of the house, how can that be of any help?
I want to start with Richard first on this. Can we take that extra step and look at these women coming in who have a potential for being abused and say why don't we raise the age of consent? Why don't we have a certain linguistic ability? Why don't we have a certain level of literacy in their native language or in one of our official languages? Would that help?